Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...

Darwin wasn't the first to suggest the theory of evolution—that all living things ... kinds of organisms that Darwin fit into his "tree of life" (here, from an 1837 notebook, his first such ...

Ecuador and the Tree of Life (12:55) Darwin's theory of a single tree of life and current biological research In Ecuador, biologists explore how adaptations to new environments can create new ...

In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who studied variation in plants, animals and fossils during a five-year voyage ...

In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution, especially in the general ...

Richard Prum, Coe Professor at Yale University and author of “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” reveals details of Darwin's theory ... a second theory of evolution.

Over the years, the theory of evolution by natural selection has itself evolved, absorbing new findings about genes, DNA, population genetics and epigenetics, all of which weren't available in ...

Today, less than a century after the publication of The Origin of Species, the theory of evolution has long been accepted as a fact of life. The brilliance of Darwin's insight lay in his ...

Before flowering plants emerged, the gymnosperms, which have cone-like structures instead of flowers, dominated the plant ...

"Even Darwin, way back in the 1870s ... around 3 million years ago -- has added other evidence to the tree-theory of human evolution. There are still missing links in the evolution of modern ...

At its heart, “evolution means that we’re all distant cousins: humans and oak trees ... before Darwin’s groundbreaking work, he was the first to posit a complete theory accounting for ...

In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who studied variation in plants, animals and fossils during a five-year voyage ...