Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been regarded as settled and beyond challenge. But as David ...

Evolution by natural selection must have a mechanism. Darwin knew in his heart that evolution by natural selection happened, but he didn't know how. In fact, he proposed a mechanism of heredity ...

This quote appears to have originally been presented as a paraphrase of Darwin's ideas. This quote often varies depending on where you look, with another version replacing “adaptable” with ...

Scientists continue to marvel at Charles Darwin’s theory of primordial soup. Recreating the soup requires sophisticated chemistry as well as chemical history. Darwin made an incredible educated ...

When Karl Marx read Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” he concluded that Darwin had arranged his beasts and plants into a mirror image of “his English society, with its division ...