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 ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin, the very name synonymous with the pioneering ... Beyond merely gathering data, Darwin was adept at connecting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Then, just when things were going great — unchangably, steadfastly great — along comes Charles Darwin. (Who was not a ...

Dhruv Shenai talks to Peter Mason about turning the The Voyage of the Beagle into a piece of travel literature ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity. By Howard E. Gruber. Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett have produced a book which they hope will elucidate the roots of Charles ...