Hooker helps Darwin hone his thinking about natural selection, but he is not shocked by its basic premise. Darwin can even later, as he sits down to write On the Origin of Species, half-jokingly ...

These ideas galvanized Darwin's thinking about the struggles for survival in the wild, where restraint is unknown. Before reading Malthus, Darwin had thought that living things reproduced just ...

Darwin the Geologist may well be tucked away in a corner of the Sedgwick Museum in the University of Cambridge, but this exhibition packs quite the punch. For a traditional geologist such as ...

Darwin’s view here is now amply documented and understood at the most fundamental level of DNA. Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection.

He was a scientist born in Shropshire, who, when studying birds on a tropical island, went: "Huh? The beaks are bigger on this island's birds than another island's birds? I wonder why this is?". He ...

The slight variations in the beak structures of finches on the Galapagos Islands are the best-known example of the influences on Darwin's thinking on how species evolved. His ideas on 'survival of ...