Charles Darwin looked forward to Sydney more than any other stop on his voyage around the world. After four years of travel, ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species that have lived on Earth. The Museum’s Library holds the world's largest concentration of Darwin works, with 478 editions of ...

History never ceases to surprise us with the passage of time and the discoveries that come to light. The latest one has been ...

But future research by geneticists provided the mechanism and additional evidence for evolution by natural selection Darwin chose the term "natural selection" to be in contrast with "artificial ...

Along the way, Darwin famously discovered the principles of natural selection, which serves as the primary evolutionary force that came to shape the nature of life itself (see Eldredge ...

and back to England—a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin was a young man of 22 at the ...

This story appears in the November 2004 issue of National Geographic magazine. Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory ...

Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while contemporary rival Alfred Russel Wallace disagreed, predicting that broader natural ...

Short-necked giraffes had therefore gradually disappeared, mercilessly swept away by natural selection. Darwin used the example of other animal species, such as the Galapagos finch, to demonstrate ...