Syme then used these as his starting point for the color names, descriptions and actual color charts in Werner’s Nomenclature ...

For the first time in history, Charles Darwin’s scribbled notes contained within the pages of books from his library are available—online and free—to the general public. At the time of his death in ...

To illustrate his theory, Darwin bred the birds to have exaggerated features. Original line drawing of an English Pouter pigeon from the book Variation in Animals and Plants under Domestication by ...

including Darwin’s favourite octopus and a rare first edition of his book, On the Origin of Species. An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of ...

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle ... and that natural selection is the mechanism. He wrote a book called The Origin of Species and persuaded everyone, except ...

A book review of Origin by Asa Gray in the Atlantic ... Image: Ellen Sharples, Charles Darwin at age Seven, 1816; Mauli and Fox, Charles Darwin, circa 1850-1860; J. Cameron, Charles Darwin ...

Books such as Charles Lyell's recently published Principles of Geology had a profound impact, making him think about slow processes which occur over vast periods of time. During the trip ...

Every year on 12 February Darwin Day is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. He revolutionaised the field of natural history from his theory of natural selection. His book ...

For much of the 20th century, many doctors and educators believed that postural defects were signs of ill health, writes ...

History’s greatest artists and thinkers reward reinterpretation. A Shakespeare or a Curie can feel different in different decades — can reveal something fresh about their time, and also ours.

This video for high-school students highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring ... led to the publication of his groundbreaking book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural ...

Scherrikar Bell: He proposed a brand new idea to explain the origin of all species on earth and wrote it all down in a book called, "On the Origin of Species." Yep, this guy. Charles Darwin ...