turned the Three Sisters to stone to protect them from a forbidden marriage and tribal fighting. Joe Wigdahl In choosing the young Charles Darwin, around age 30 here, the Beagle’s captain sought ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory ... How much do you know about the Roman town destroyed by Mount Vesuvius? Stone Age quiz: What do you know about the Paleolithic, Mesolithic ...

Enjoy some select scenes from Smithsonian Books’ new, Darwin: A Graphic Biography. Leah Binkovitz | | Read More Leah Binkovitz is a Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow at Washington Post and NPR.

It was not about religion—Croizat was as complete an evolutionist as Darwin had been. However, in Croizat’s eyes, Darwin had gotten almost everything about evolution wrong. To begin with ...

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 ...

Evolution does seem to ... Moore’s authoritative biography, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. When Darwin’s daughter Annie died at age 10, Darwin came to hate the God he blamed ...

Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been regarded as settled and beyond challenge. But as David ...