Darwin wasn't the first to suggest the theory ... Here, a 1999 evolutionary tree based on DNA shows how the five great apes, including us, arose from a common ancestor. Branch length indicates ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

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 ...

He sees 12-foot-high ant nests, iridescent hummingbirds, and his first New World monkey. He collects orchids, lizards, and more. On a single day, Darwin catches 68 species of beetles. Earlier on ...

The Monkey, in which one of the men is tied up by his feet and swung about by his shipmates. Cambridge University Library The day Darwin climbed Patagonia’s Mount Tarn, Conrad Martens painted it ...