When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" - proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition ...

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book " On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...

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On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

His observations prompted him to develop the theory of evolution, as outlined in his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species.” Of the 9,000 species here, many are unique to the Galapagos.

Darwin's theory, popularized in his book "On the Origin of Species," states that pressures in the environment determine which members of a species survive long enough to reproduce.

In a convergence of anniversaries, Darwin would have turned 200 years old on Feb. 12, and his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, turns 150 on Nov. 24.

In 1859, Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which theorized that humans were not created by God but had evolved from earlier species.