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 ...

A review of Togetherness, biologist-turned-journalist Rowan Hooper’s latest book that challenges Darwin’s leading theory of ...

As a child Matthew Chapman wasn’t much interested in his great-great-grandfather, Charles Darwin. For him, Darwin was just a part of science, someone to take for granted, rather than a hero who ...

It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the father ...

The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles Darwin for the cold reception it gave him 150 years ago. The Church of ...

Charles Darwin taught us that extinction is nature’s slow way of weeding out the less adaptable. “Survival of the fittest” ...

Pioneering AI-powered research on butterflies has probed the under-studied evolution of females and adds to a debate between the founding fathers of evolution. The University of Essex study—published ...

November 24 is Evolution day—a day commemorating the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species on November 24, 1859. Darwin's seminal work is now considered the most influential book of ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

Charles Darwin believed evolution created “endless forms most beautiful.” It’s a nice sentiment, but it doesn’t explain why evolution keeps making crabs. Scientists have long wondered whether there ...

A recent book on evolutionary theory fails to reckon with the social side of natural selection. In 1904, thousands of indigenous people were brought to the St. Louis World’s Fair to be put on public ...