2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species." As with many original sources, it is known mostly by reputation but Darwin's writing can still offer surprises ...

On the Origin of Species Introduction When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the ...

Darwin on the Origin of Species “New notions and new styles worry us, till we get well used to them, which is only by slow degrees.” ...

In addition a virtual reading group led by Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephanie Aktipis will read Darwin's Origin of the Species, starting in early October.

During a trip to Mashpi Lodge in Quito, Ecuador, visitors spend the day at lectures on biology and conservation before checking on visuals recorded by camera traps wired throughout the jungle ...

We touch, in fact, the grand and complex question of the Origin of Species -- that mystery of mysteries, as one of our greatest philosophers has styled it.

Have you ever looked at your hands and wondered how and why human beings developed 5 fingers over the course of evolutionary history? It's an interesting story.

The trees have been called both "grotesque" and "one of the most charismatic species on our planet" – and now we know where they came from.

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial ...

Take a tour through seven million years of human evolution and explore the origin of Homo sapiens.