One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state's schools can teach ...

Before he became Mister Terrific in Superman, Edi Gathegi's Darwin in X-Men: First Class reached a terrible and frustrating ...

Darwin remains a deeply polarizing figure today and is despised among those who believe in creationism, the theory that God had a hand in evolution. "I find his atheism interesting.

Darwin was desperate to undertake a similar scientific odyssey. An attempt to organize an expedition to Tenerife in the Canary Islands off the coast of northwest Africa, had fallen through.

Darwin would have been amazed, for example, to learn that the continents are in constant, crawling motion. The term "genetics" wasn't even coined until 1905, long after Darwin's death in 1882.

Now let us turn to our richest geological museums, and what a paltry display we behold!- Charles Darwin It may not seem like that long ago, but in 1859, when On the Origin of Species was published ...

Darwin took a swing at the problem of inheritance and missed, sure, but let’s keep in mind that he was also responsible for what is arguably the greatest theory ever: evolution by natural selection.

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Why Evolution Is True” and “Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and ...

Evolution by natural selection must have a mechanism. Darwin knew in his heart that evolution by natural selection happened, but he didn't know how. In fact, he proposed a mechanism of heredity ...