While this internal rivalry is usually hard to see, it becomes clearer when it involves genes on the X and Y chromosomes, ...

Soda lakes might hold the key to the emergence of life on Earth. These unique environments could have concentrated the ...

He was a scientist born in Shropshire, who, when studying birds on a tropical island, went: "Huh? The beaks are bigger on this island's birds than another island's birds? I wonder why this is?". He ...

This video for high-school students highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring to light his theory of evolution through natural selection, which meant going against societal norms of ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles Darwin. Today, researchers using the genetic ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

On his travels Darwin collected plants, animals and fossils, and took copious field notes. These collections and records provided the evidence he needed to develop his remarkable theory. The shells in ...

A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when Charles Darwin first discovered it. The Galápagos Rail, considered a near-endangered species ...

But he does worry that his experiments have started to erase natural selection in a way that will be difficult to control. Despite his hope to one day be remembered as the “Chinese Darwin”, Mr ...

On his travels Darwin collected plants, animals and fossils, and took copious field notes. These collections and records provided the evidence he needed to develop his remarkable theory. The shells in ...