The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time ...

Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

"Even Darwin, way back in the 1870s ... A better way to think about human evolution is like a 'bushy tree' with many branches. This is the metaphor increasingly used by scientists in this field.

and future wife Darwin considers Malthus’ theories of human growth and struggle Does survival of the fittest apply to all species? Even humans?

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.

Darwin, who assumed that evolution plodded along at a glacially ... Darwin argued that sexual selection might account for human racial differences: "We have seen that each race has its own style ...

“It’s not if you think that human beings are the end of this ... Carlson argued you can measure “adaptation.” Part of Darwin’s theory of evolution is that species adapt to their ...

Now, it contributes to the many variations of the human ear that make it so unique in each and every one of us, so whether you’re the poster child for Darwin’s tubercle, or lacking it all ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

Darwin finally addressed the issue in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, published in 1871, explaining he had been studying human evolution for years, but "with the ...