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 ...
So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of ... journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin was a young man of 22 at the time, a recent ...
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 ...
This process of natural selection was first described by Charles Darwin in 1859 in On the Origin of Species. It helps explain how the many varied species on Earth could be descended from a single ...