He is best known for his central role as co-discoverer of the theory of evolution, culminating in the publication of his most ...

Documentary heritage relating to the life and work of Charles Darwin has been recognised on the prestigious UNESCO International Memory of the World Register, highlighting its critical importance to ...

Syme then used these as his starting point for the color names, descriptions and actual color charts in Werner’s Nomenclature ...

Considering marriage, Charles Darwin wrote that a wife is "better than a dog," and this was apparently enough of a reason to ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don’t, no explanation is acceptable,” said St. Thomas ...

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

Nearing the end of his first term, on September 18, 2020, Pres. Donald Trump invoked the “racehorse theory” at a campaign ...

The forward slash is the most ambiguous of punctuation marks. Placed between two words it can mean “or”, “and” or “combined with”. Its appearance here, in the title of a series of essays about our ...

Thomas Hardy’s marriage to Emma Gifford went from romantic to estranged, and yet he was grief-stricken when she died.