“After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the HMS Beagle was something like a ...
François-Joseph Lapointe, a biology professor at the Université de Montréal, has been teaching the theory of natural selection for two decades. The theory stipulates that all organisms best suited to ...
The Galápagos Islands, a remote volcanic archipelago, located about 1,000 kilometers west of Ecuador, is probably one of the most unique places on Earth. In the scientific world, this archipelago is ...
Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.
AFTER the one-volume “Life and Letters” by Francis Darwin, and the admirable little book by Grant Allen in the “English Worthies” series, there seemed to be little room for another English work upon ...
Julia Kindt receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Tanya Latty receives funding from The Branco Weiss fellowship, Agrifutures Australia, and the Australian Research Council.
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It’s one of the greatest stories in science, right up there with Neil Armstrong’s small step on the moon and Jane ...
A signed Charles Darwin manuscript sold for $882,000 at auction, Sotheby's says. Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is ...