May 1981 The second point is that Darwin's theory of evolution is silent on the 'origin of living things' – that is, how life on earth began. Darwin himself mused that life could have arisen 'in ...

Scientists have proposed many theories to explain the origin of life. Two stand out: the primordial soup theory and the RNA world hypothesis. Both these theories follow a linear way of thinking by ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science ... water is much more likely to become a part of solid objects that formed at a greater distance from the sun. To explain ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

The threat to his life's work could hardly have come at ... to study thoroughly—principally with a view to the theory of the origin of species." In April 1848, having saved £100 from his ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'.

The findings support the theory that the formation of habitable ... for our planet to develop the conditions to support life. The origin of hydrogen, and by extension water, on Earth has been ...