Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...
Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species is best known for explaining evolution by natural selection, but it also offers a broader life lesson through the line, “The shield may be as important for ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humanity’s understanding of life was forever altered when ...
In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...
A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...
Scientists are chipping away at a century-old mystery. Charles Darwin at his home at Down House, Kent, 1880. Heritage Images/Getty Images — -- Scientists following two different lines of evidence ...