Darwin drew parallels between natural selection and artificial selection. He was inspired by the evolution observed in pigeons bred as a hobby in England.

Charles Darwin was born into a world that today’s scientists wouldn’t recognize. When baby Darwin arrived on February 12, 1809, modern science was also in its infancy. Dalton had just recently ...

Artificial selection, also known as selective breeding, is a nice way of saying that humans have guided the evolution of other animals until they become mutants. The stories of these six human ...

Researchers have produced some of the first evidence that shows that artificial selection and natural selection act on the same genes, a hypothesis predicted by Charles Darwin in 1859. Charles ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin said sexual selection drove male butterfly looks, while rival Alfred Russel Wallace ...

The term “artificial selection” was coined by Charles Darwin, but the practice of selective breeding predates Darwin by thousands of years. In fact, ...

M odern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children, a new study ...

Darwin's mistake, he believes, was to model natural selection on the artificial selection carried out by man on farm animals. "The aim of artificial selection is to make species evolve towards ...

In Darwin’s theory of evolution, life is able to evolve through a process of ‘natural selection’, where certain traits become more or less common in animals based on their benefit.

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - which Darwin published in 1871 - fuelled even greater debate as it suggested that humans descended from apes. The Bishop of Oxford famously asked ...