In which Darwin uses examples from domestication to explore the causes of variability and the principles of selection Farmers have been unwitting evolutionists since they began, as they have shaped ...

Folio 233 is one of only three signed by Darwin. This sheet is the most recent to be located- found in the library of Fondation Martin Bodmer, Switzerland. On the 164th anniversary of Charles Darwin's ...

Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection." This volume will greatly influence Spencer F. Baird, a naturalist who is the Assistant Secretary in charge of the ...

Alfred Russel Wallace : a short biography / by Andrew Berry -- Granted the law : Alfred Russel Wallace's evolutionary travels -- The consilient Mr. Wallace : transmutation and related themes of ...

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The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this ...

The Shaybah Wildlife Sanctuary is reintroducing iconic Arabian animals that were once locally extinct. At first glance, it’s easy to understand why the expansive red sands of Rub’ al-Khali translate ...