Photograph of Charles Robert Darwin taken at his home, Down House, in 1881. Charles Darwin is celebrated as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived, but in his time his radical theories ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... But the steady accumulation of observations was building up. Home again, Darwin showed his specimens to fellow biologists and began ...

A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when Charles Darwin first discovered it. The Galápagos Rail, considered a near-endangered species ...

a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had spent three years sailing around South America studying animals, fossils and geology, and was on his way home ...

all the specimens I collected never made it home as the ship caught fire destroying them all. CHARLES DARWIN: Dreadful ordeal for you, Wallace, but it didn't stop you did it? ALFRED WALLACE ...

A common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, collected by Charles Darwin in 1832 off the Cape Verde ... HMS beagle in the Straits of Magellan Leaving home in 1831 at just 22, Darwin's first stop on the Beagle ...

The Charles Darwin bicentennial celebrates the man who recognized natural selection and changed the world's views on evolution. However, his contributions to geology should not be overlooked.

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles Darwin. Today, researchers using the genetic ...