Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory. A one-page manuscript from scientist ...

It is a common question — what's the most extraordinary scientific legacy of Charles Robert Darwin's vision of life? The ...

Charles Darwin is not around today to explain his views to critics who decry evolution on religious grounds. But among his voluminous writings and correspondence are occasional passages that indicate ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...

Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.

An exhibition called Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Selection and the Visual Arts, is being held at the Yale Center for British Art until 3 May 2009, and at the Fitzwilliam Museum, ...

Charles Darwin was a careful scientist. In the middle of the 19th century, while he was collecting evidence for his theory that species evolve by natural selection, he noticed it didn’t explain the ...

In this bicentennial year of Charles Darwin's birth, it is gratifying to see Nature devoting a wealth of comment to the great man and to evolution. But like much other scholarly perspective, your ...

Charles Darwin, known for his theory of evolution, would have celebrated his 210th birthday Tuesday. Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection came to be the base for modern evolution study.

A signed Charles Darwin manuscript sold for $882,000 at auction, Sotheby's says. Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is ...