After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English ... to survive are then passed on to the next generation This theory is called natural selection.

Natural selection, one of the most important theories in biology, was formulated by evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin in the 19th century. The theory can be used to explain the imbalance on a ...

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 kind of natural selection.

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 ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles ... through natural selection. Darwin was ...

Charles Robert Darwin ... origin and diversity of the world's living things. But Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the ...

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) transformed the way we understand ... declaring that evolution occurs by a process of natural selection. What is the theory of natural selection? To this day the ...

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

Though his theory of natural selection was revolutionary ... come up with a theory as earth shaking as his grandson would. Charles Darwin was, in a word, respectable -- and wanted to remain ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin's arguments ... version of ...