Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote a short paper about a tiny clam found clamped to the leg of a water beetle in a pond in the English Midlands. It was his last publication.

"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," Darwin (c.1880) said of a future in which his hard-won findings would be tested. Bettmann / Corbis Charles Darwin was just 28 years old ...

He died at Down House on 19th April 1882. CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN BORN 12 FEBRUARY 1809. DIED 19 APRIL 1882. Although an agnostic, Darwin was greatly respected by his contemporaries and the Bishop of ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Charles Darwin and his sister Caroline both married Wedgwoods too. 2. Darwin’s mother died when he was eight ... tutored him before he left for boarding school, looked after his journals ...

Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands and grasped the significance of unique wildlife. There only he found how life is unique before returning to London. On the trip, he collected several ...