On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

History’s greatest artists and thinkers reward reinterpretation. A Shakespeare or a Curie can feel different in different decades — can reveal something fresh about their time, and also ours.

Books such as Charles Lyell's recently published Principles of Geology had a profound impact, making him think about slow processes which occur over vast periods of time. During the trip ...

Dhruv Shenai talks to Peter Mason about turning the The Voyage of the Beagle into a piece of travel literature ...

Notice its tail - the same shape as a beaver's - and its furry, otter-like body. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is arguably the most important book in biology - after all, it's where he ...

including Darwin's favourite octopus and a rare first edition of his book, On the Origin of Species. An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of ...

Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity. By Howard E. Gruber. Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett have produced a book which they hope will elucidate the roots of Charles ...

Darwin’s view here is now amply documented and understood at the most fundamental level of DNA. Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection.

In 1831, a young British naturalist called Charles Darwin joined the crew of the HMS ... for the development of the natural world. The book quickly became a bestseller far beyond academic circles ...

The birth of 33 frogs at the London Zoo has been hailed as a “landmark moment” in the ongoing battle to save an endangered species that was first described by Charles Darwin during his epic voyage on ...