Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...

Darwin knew that plant and animal species could be sorted into groups ... Once new material has nestled into a host's genome via horizontal transfer, the genetic material is as subject to natural ...

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 ...

This process, whereby species evolve rapidly to exploit empty ecospace, is known as adaptive radiation. In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might ...

The neo-Darwinist attachment to Natural Selection has arrested the development of science for too long.

There’s a quote often misattributed to Charles Darwin, the famed evolutionary biologist, that I’ve been thinking about a lot ...

Take a closer look at nine highlights from the collections we care for, including Darwin’s favourite octopus and a rare first edition of his book, On the Origin of Species. While on HMS Beagle, Darwin ...

Amid concerns that the Darwin Plus funding for Overseas Territories could be cut, Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Leona Roberts ...

Charles Darwin was so troubled ... Females of certain ichneumon species feed on their hosts by sipping body fluids released during egg-laying, or even piercing the host and non-host insects ...