The analogy between artificial selection of domestic varieties and natural selection in nature was a vital element of Darwin's argument in his Origin of Species. Ever since, the image of breeders ...

Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory. A one-page manuscript from scientist ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract No single author presented Darwin with a more difficult question about his priority in discovering natural selection than the British ...

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how ...

"Darwin's Nightmare" fully lives up to its chilling title, a cinema verite journey to the heart of darkness -- not, mind you, the heart of Africa, where it transpires, but to the murkiest reaches of ...

A signed Charles Darwin manuscript sold for $882,000 at auction, Sotheby's says. Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is ...