Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory. A one-page manuscript from scientist ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...

Are the slight differences in coat pattern between giraffes due to adaptation, or are they irrelevant for their survival chances? A new literature review aims to contribute to a constructive debate.

This post is the second in a series on evolutionary medicine, the application of the principles of evolution to the understanding of health and disease. Read the previous entry here. It's a basic ...

Part I. Selection: Darwin and natural selection -- The group selection controversy -- For whose good does natural selection work? -- Part II. Adaptation: Darwin (and others) on biological perfection - ...

One hundred fifty years ago, a book appeared in England that changed the world. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been called the most important book ever written. Introducing the theory ...

Ryan (Virus X), a British physician, attempts to find a common explanation for much in our natural world. Ranging widely from the origin of life to the creation of human civilization and from the ...

Some of nature's mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades – for example, the processes which drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between and within species are caused ...

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