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

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 ...

The New York Times hails the find of Piltdown Man with the headline "Darwin Theory is Proved True." The find at first bolsters the argument for human evolution -- in the 1920s, a model of the ...

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

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 ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central ... variation at the molecular level does not affect fitness and, therefore, the evolutionary fate of ...

Although elements of what we now know as evolution had been discussed in the scientific community 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 ...