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 ...

Scientists are testing Charles Darwin's theory on species diversity by analysing Kentia palm varieties that have grown side by side for 1 million years.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," Darwin (c ... who developed his own early theory of evolution. (It was more purely conceptual than Charles' and missed the idea of ...

The soil beneath Lord Howe Island's famous Kentia palms could hold the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery that has been confounding scientists since the time of Charles Darwin. The 19th ...

One answer: for the fossil mammal and bird discoveries that most visitors miss, but which Charles Darwin himself considered the best evidence for the theory of evolution in his lifetime.

Ten Cambridge scientists have been elected as fellows of the Royal Society. They join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac ...

May 25, 1925 began in Tennessee in the United States of the South, a process that went down in history as “The monkey process ...

A bizarre theory (and a gory surgery) in fin-de-siècle Vienna help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work ...

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This is in direct opposition to the conditions that led Charles ... to Darwin’s theory. Lord Howe Island is in some respects akin to the Galapagos or Madagascar: unique islands where evolution ...