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 geological relations of the present to the past ...

Erasmus Darwin, M.D., F.R.S. : a biographical and iconographical note / J.W.T. Moody -- Nature, poetry and medicine in late eighteenth century England : a unified perspective of Erasmus Darwin / M.

NH copy 39088015198849 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. ""This attractive and readable book makes a valuable ...

In the previous post of this two-part series, we looked at Charles Darwin’s life through the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this post, we will complete his life’s story, and ...

This story appears in the November 2004 issue of National Geographic magazine. Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory ...

The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. 2010 marks 400 years since Galileo published The Starry Messenger, his first public comment on Copernicanism and the first popular ...