We love to blame Darwin for the brutal side of capitalism, but the truth is messier, and a lot more interesting, than the slogan suggests. Social Darwinism has become shorthand for a harsh, “eat‑or‑be ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

On Darwin Day, the story behind the delay in publishing his evolution theory is revisited. The fear of religious backlash and rivalry shaped this revolutionary idea’s journey.

Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin. By Howard Markel. W.W. Norton; 368 pages; $35 and £25 IT usually TAKES a rather long time for a worldview to become outmoded and replaced by a new one. But ...

In honor of Darwin Day Feb. 12, CU Boulder evolutionary biologist Daniel Medeiros explains what we get right and wrong about Darwinism For evolutionary biologists, the big day is imminent. No, not ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was ...

Long before there were modern laboratories and high-powered microscopes, a curious young Englishman began asking simple but ...

Some argue that Charles Robert Darwin is the greatest scientist in history; others curse his name. Whatever your perspective, it would be hard to argue with the assertion that his ideas are some of ...