On Wednesday, April 26, 1882, the body of Charles Darwin ... Yet Darwin knew that he himself lacked the comfort of a steady faith. In some of his last words, he wrote "A man who has no assured ...

Bettmann / Corbis Charles Darwin was just 28 years old ... But Darwin, who wrote more than a dozen scientific books, an autobiography and thousands of letters, notebooks, logs and other informal ...

It would become one of the most important books ever written. Darwin described writing it as like 'living in Hell'. He dreaded losing his reputation, as his grandfather Erasmus had. Charles did ...

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship ... as it's now known—and that natural selection is the mechanism. He wrote a book called The Origin of Species and persuaded ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin ... response. A book review of Origin by Asa Gray in the Atlantic Monthly that year (link below) combined admiration of Darwin's "eloquent" ideas ...

Despite accusations of blasphemy, the book quickly became a bestseller. Foreign language first editions of some works by Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man ... to his conversational and approachable ...

In a brilliant new book, “Natural Magic,” Renée Bergland brings Emily Dickinson and Charles ... When Darwin returned to Britain, he focused on researching and writing. Dickinson headed ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... Darwin recognised that his theory could offend some people, writing in his book’s concluding remarks; The main conclusion arrived at in this work ...

It's been called the most important scientific book ever. A stunning claim, but certainly Charles Lyell's Principles ... out asteroid impacts and the like. Darwin read Lyell's landmark text ...

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is arguably the most important book in biology – after all ... have been in part thanks to the conversational rather than academic writing style. A rare first ...

Darwin’s view here is now amply documented and understood at the most fundamental level of DNA. Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection.

He was exhausted from writing the Origin of Species, the ground-breaking book which would shake the ... a three pipe problem to solve, whereas Charles Darwin would declare that some ideas were ...