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

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 ...

The famed naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin is, of course, best known for his works on evolution—specifically On the ...

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 ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

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 ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. Strong reactions rippled across the United States. The eventual upshot: a ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, ... But how much do you know about the man behind the theory? Take our quiz to find out.

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 ...