In honor of Darwin Day, these are a few aspects of the geologic record Darwin did not know about when he wrote On the Origin of Species. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured.

Darwin remains a deeply polarizing figure today and is despised among those who believe in creationism, the theory that God had a hand in evolution. "I find his atheism interesting.

Fact Check. English naturalist Charles Darwin has been subject to numerous misunderstandings and misattributions across the internet. One in particular takes the form of a popular quote that you ...

Darwin's former mentor, Reverend Adam Sedgwick, writes a scathing 85-page critique. When later asked why he published anonymously, Chambers pointed to his house, in which he had 11 children, and ...

Over 150 years ago, Charles Darwin wrote a personal letter to a friend and laid out the scaffolding of what would later be called primordial soup theory: Basically, Earth’s original blend of ...

The Atlantic has been commenting on the conflict between evolution theory and religious fundamentalism since Darwin first published his ground-breaking treatise in the nineteenth century. Almost ...

St. Jago, one of the Cape Verde Islands, is the first place Darwin disembarks on his Beagle voyage. "The geology of St. Jago," Darwin notes, "is very striking yet simple: a stream of lava formerly ...