It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

The naturalist knew his work on evolution would be contentious. But a new biography reveals his canny PR strategy.

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 ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the British naturalist? When you purchase through links on our site ...

Acclaimed narrative historian Diana Preston (“Eight Days at Yalta”; “Lusitania”; “Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima”), a first cousin of Charles Darwin’s wife Emma ...

A piece of paper signed by Charles Darwin, defending his theory of evolution ... when he wrote the passage he'd recently read Newton's biography. The 17th Century genius also had to endure ...

When Karl Marx read Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species ... Mr. Roberts structures his story as a double biography of Buffon and his Swedish rival, Carl Linnaeus.