With Darwin day celebrations going on around the world, people are looking back on a man that changed science as part of a larger cultural revolution away from using theology to explain natural ...

The sweeping title of this book refers to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. However, Randall Fuller does not include Darwin’s entire impact upon the United States. Rather, he focuses on how ...

D. Graham Burnett and Chris Mooney on untangling the cultural history of evolution. This February 12 marks the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, a man whose life and work epitomize ...

If there is an afterlife, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has had a roller-coaster of a ride. His life went well enough at first, defined early by honors gained on the battlefield and in the lab. Lamarck was a ...

Q: Tell us about this "dangerous idea" of Darwin's. A: I think Darwin's idea of natural selection is the best idea anybody ever had, ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein. What it does is it promises to ...

One hundred fifty years ago, a book appeared in England that changed the world. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been called the most important book ever written. Introducing the theory ...