Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

In this bicentennial year of Charles Darwin's birth, it is gratifying to see Nature devoting a wealth of comment to the great man and to evolution. But like much other scholarly perspective, your ...

A signed Charles Darwin manuscript sold for $882,000 at auction, Sotheby's says. Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is ...

HAVING read many of the eulogistic articles on Darwin's work which appeared at the time of his centenary, Mr. Morse was prompted to look into the matter for himself. He does not claim for his work any ...

Q: Tell us about this "dangerous idea" of Darwin's. A: I think Darwin's idea of natural selection is the best idea anybody ever had, ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein. What it does is it promises to ...

Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo with Mistique the village dog. When thinking about evolution, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, or “survival of the fittest,” ...

One hundred fifty years ago, a book appeared in England that changed the world. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been called the most important book ever written. Introducing the theory ...

Charles Darwin expounded the theory of evolution in his 1859 book “The Origin of Species.” It was in that book that Darwin theorized that plants and animals evolve and develop without the aid of an ...