Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Similar stories have been shared ever since. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the Atlantic in Northfield, Massachusetts, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humanity’s understanding of life was forever altered when ...

Yesterday was the 200th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, the man most credited with the formation of the theory of evolution. While I wholeheartedly believe that evolution as a fact is indisputable, ...

Charles Darwin's theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history, New York University Geologist Michael Rampino concludes in an essay in the journal Historical Biology. In fact, ...

Nearly 140 years after his death, a University of Cambridge researcher has found strong evidence that one of Darwin’s hypotheses is true. That hypothesis states that a species belonging to a larger ...

Prologue : a peculiar obsession -- Part One. Darwin in the field. The lieutenant and the beetle collector -- Field trip with a master : the state of geology -- Setting out : the adventures begin -- ...

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.

Charles Darwin sparked more than one controversy over the natural progression of life. One such case involved the evolution of coral atolls, the ring-shaped coral reefs that surround submerged ...

I found myself utterly fascinated by this extraordinary book -- biography, science and romance rolled into one, and beautifully done. It begins with Charles Darwin making a list of the pros and cons ...

Charles Darwin's 1842 theory about the formation of ring-shaped reefs, called atolls, is incorrect, but 'it's so beautiful, so simple and pleasing' that it still appears in textbooks and university ...