Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

1. Origins and the Greeks / Jeremy Kirby -- 2. Evolution before Darwin / Michael Ruse -- 3. Charles Darwin's geology : the root of his philosophy of the earth / David Norman -- 4. Looking back with ...

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 ...

The University of Wisconsin held their annual birthday bash in honor of evolutionary biologist, Charles Darwin from Feb. 8 to Feb. 10. The celebration included two seminars highlighting evolutionary ...

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 ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

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 ...