Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Then came Charles Darwin, first with a theory of the evolution of organic beings which involved the ancestry of man, and sixteen years later with a cumulative study (“The Descent of Man,” 1871 ...

Even evolution's pioneering scientist Charles Darwin knew that. First off, the term was coined by English polymath Herbert Spencer after he read "On the Origin of Species." Darwin only began using ...

Find out about Charles Darwin’s life, research and theory of evolution with BBC Bitesize KS3 History. For students aged between 11 to 14.

What Darwin actually said about man and apes Following Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satyapal Singh’s comment that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution of man was ...

INTRODUCTORY. TELEOLOGY, a word so familiar to readers of the works of Archdeacon Paley and of Sir Charles Bell, has disappeared from the vocabulary of scientific men. Darwin killed it; he put an ...

The naturalist knew his work on evolution would be contentious. But a new biography reveals his canny PR strategy.

When Darwin’s co-discoverer of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, wrote him to say that evolution could not account for man’s moral and spiritual nature, Darwin accused him of jeopardizing the ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest collection of caricatures of Charles Darwin and evolution in history.

Darwin and Dawkins: ... In 1976 his book “The Selfish Gene”—which argued that natural selection at the level of the gene is the driver of evolution—became a surprise bestseller.