Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England in 1809. In 1825 he went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. His experience at university provided him with a wide scientific education.

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was ... discoveries would be? Even Darwin himself may not have immediately realized their importance. For fifteen years after his voyage aboard ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by ... was a challenge to the foundations of western civilisation. Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...

Scientists long after Darwin spent years trying to understand the process that had created so many types of finches that differed mainly in the size and shape of their beaks. Most recently ...