Charles Darwin coined the phrase "living fossil" to describe the ginkgo tree, whose distinctive wedge-shaped leaves are nearly identical to those of fossilized ginkgos from the Triassic Period 240 ...

will help you trace the profound ways in which science can uniquely transform human life. Image: Ellen Sharples, Charles Darwin at age Seven, 1816; Mauli and Fox, Charles Darwin, circa 1850-1860 ...

Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin ... evidence for Darwin's belief in the commonality of all species than to find the same gene doing the same job in birds and fish, continents apart?

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 ...

the great and complex battle of life...” – unlike his predecessors who viewed nature as a peaceful, harmoniously designed landscape painting, Darwin had observed that nature was a battlefield ...