So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of his ... a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin was a young man of 22 at the time, a recent ...

A stunning claim, but certainly Charles ... Lyell argued that the formation of Earth's crust took place through countless small changes occurring over vast periods of time, all according to known ...

The great geologist Charles Lyell repeatedly referred to Lamarck ... of biology to this day.Who was Lamarck? How did Natural Selection escape from his shadow and gain acceptance from the ...

Books such as Charles Lyell's recently published Principles ... Evolution occurred by a process he called 'Natural Selection'. Darwin struggled with the idea; it contradicted his Christian world ...

The Charles Darwin bicentennial celebrates the man who recognized natural selection and changed the world's views on evolution. However, his contributions to geology should not be overlooked.

This process of natural selection was first described by Charles Darwin in 1859 in On the Origin of Species. It helps explain how the many varied species on Earth could be descended from a single ...