pt. 1. Introduction: Development of the theory of evolution. Sources of evolutionary ideas in the late eighteenth century ; Evolutionary and antievolutionary currents in early nineteenth-century ...

Fossils are used to reconstruct evolutionary history, but not all animals and plants become fossils and many fossils are destroyed before we can find them (e.g., the rocks that contain the fossils are ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

"This Coral Episode" : Darwin, Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific / David R. Stoddart -- Darwin's biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909 / E. Alison Kay -- ...

Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural ...

After decades of fact-finding and experimenting -- and at the coaxing of his closest friends -- Darwin finally begins the manuscript of his life. Charles Lyell is, at first, vehemently opposed to the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Is evolution a gradual process or a punctuated one, with rapid evolution taking hold in fits and starts? A new study suggests the latter, as ...

A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...

With all the controversies and political debates that seem to surround such issues as how to teach students about science and evolution, parents might wish there were some informative and engaging ...

Long before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, lively debates about evolution flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. Virtually unknown to many ...

In North America, Darwin events are scheduled in Chicago, Houston and Denver, among many other places. Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History established an "Evolution Trail" that highlights ...