Darwin’s Story Isn’t as Simple as It Seems

Anyone with even a passing interest in Earth’s beauty might feel jealous of Lewis’s sojourn with plentiful tortoises, iguanas ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Charles Darwin’s Publisher Didn’t Believe in Evolution, but Sold His Revolutionary Book Anyway

Charles Darwin, left, and his conservative publisher, John Murray III, right. Photo illustration by Meilan Solly; source material from Wikimedia Commons Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution shook up ...

Quote of the day by Charles Darwin, “Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our...”

Charles Darwin, a revolutionary scientist, reshaped our understanding of life with his theory of evolution by natural ...
Nature

Darwin's legacy

The double anniversary of Darwin's bicentenary and 150 years since publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection provides the perfect pretext to enhance the public ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Letter About Darwin’s Belief in God Just Sold for Nearly $200,000

The idea of natural selection has caused religious debates since even before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Now, a letter penned by the father of evolution himself on his ...