He did not, though, come up with a theory as earth shaking as his grandson would. Charles Darwin was, in a word, respectable -- and wanted to remain so. He grew up an advantaged, upper-class young ...

And that's why he is the biggest name in Victorian science. Charles Darwin is one of the biggest names in science. A true Victorian explorer and scientist, he travelled the world to develop his ...

The journey of young Charles ... Darwin wrote, would "throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth, and their disappearance from it, than any other class of facts." ...

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 ... facts in favor of change of forms." Darwin ...

Charles Darwin is one of the most influential figures in science, best known for his groundbreaking work, On the Origin of Species (1859). His theory of evolution by natural selection reshaped our ...

The modern story began in 1859 with the Darwin–Wallace theory of the origin of species by natural selection. From the start there were obvious inconsistencies. Then, at the turn of the nineteenth ...

Charles Darwin adored novels ... Ecological Plot,” Miller shows how this also played out in the works of Victorian novelists ...