Charles Darwin's "Tree of Life" sketch is seen on a page of "Notebook B," one of the trove of Darwin documents that had been stored in the Cambridge University library until it went missing in 2001.

Trekking across them, Darwin comes upon a grove of fossilized trees at 7,000 feet. These trees, with sandstone sediments "once waved their branches on the shores of the Atlantic." ...

Evolution’s Roots Until the advent of cheap and efficient gene sequencing technology in the 21st century, appearance was usually all evolutionary biologists had to go on. While Darwin (1859) showed ...

Charles Darwin thought evolution happened very slowly, but South Florida’s anole species are proving that change can happen much quicker than science had previously known.

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago.

This article is more than 3 years old. Notebook containing Darwin's original 1837 diagram of the Tree-of-Life, one of two such notebooks believed to have been stolen in late 2000 or early 2001.

Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural ...

Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, said: “It turns out that we’ve got lots of our evolutionary trees wrong.

Darwin is known best for his theory of evolution by natural selection, and his contributions to the foundation of modern evolutionary biology. UW anthropology professor John Hawks kicked off the three ...

These bird species, along with other animals on the islands, inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and, 150 years later, allowed Schluter to demonstrate that Darwin’s theories about ...

Darwin had no more than a fair formal education, was an indifferent student, and had failed in medical school. He went on to Cambridge to study for the ministry, while his father, a country doctor ...