Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...
Darwin realised that differences between species of mockingbird on the islands were greater than between those he’d seen across the continent. He began contemplating while aboard HMS Beagle, but it ...
So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account ... England—a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin was a young man of 22 at the time ...
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) transformed the way we understand the natural world with ... analysing specimens before finally declaring that evolution occurs by a process of natural selection.
But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles ... through natural selection. Darwin was ...