| 单词 | Charles Darwin |
| 例句 | “Whatever would Deacon Hurd say if he knew you were reading Charles Darwin?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He was the only person Charles Darwin was ever known to hate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And almost 150 years later, Charles Darwin used his own extensive collections from his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle to verify his ideas about evolution. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was an interest, he remarked, that Turner shared with the young Charles Darwin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Galton was born in the winter of 1822—the same year as Gregor Mendel—and thirteen years after his cousin Charles Darwin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That the mechanism of evolution is natural selection is the great discovery associated with the names of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The outside world loved and reviled Charles Darwin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the tiny classrooms, students gathered around conference tables and critiqued the concept of America as a shining city on a hill, or compared the writings of Charles Darwin and Ursula K. Le Guin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin thought Buckland a buffoon–that was the word he used–but Lyell appeared to find him inspiring and liked him well enough to go touring with him in Scotland in 1824. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As Charles Darwin observed, instinctive tendency to bake, brew, or write.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin—who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently his report of seeing the newly married Charles Darwin with his bride made a big impact on the Horneritas. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 24, 1859, on a wintry Thursday morning, Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection appeared in bookstores in England, priced at fifteen shillings a copy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin was not in the room to see what happened. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Over three quarters of a century ago, Charles Darwin published a book titled The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He begged all assembled to believe the Bible as God’s holy word, as the truth about creation, not Charles Darwin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin, too, of course, was an amateur not a professional scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the wall behind him were photographs of his two heroes, Tomkins and Charles Darwin. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin left an unparalleled legacy to science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once when he said, “Aristotle shocked people. Charles Darwin outraged people. Aldous Huxley scandalized millions!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was a wealthy banker in Birmingham; his mother was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the polymath poet and doctor, who was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1838, in his rented rooms on Great Marlborough Street, London, Charles Darwin drew a line down the middle of a piece of scrap paper. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The new single volume by Charles Darwin, the humble and articulate guide, was a huge popular success. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin was a person to be revered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his last official acts was to lobby against a proposal to erect a statue in memory of Charles Darwin. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So although it became one of the most famous scientific meetings in history, one in which evolution and religion fought on center stage, Charles Darwin was not there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The joint paper of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace was read in a stately room on Piccadilly Street in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin said he could not “persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created” such gruesome killers, but without them farmers would spray tons more pesticide, and who wants that? Parasites may not be cute and cuddly, but they need saving too, scientists say 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z One highly ranked town is an unlikely hotbed for Tibetan monks, while another largely forgoes Valentine’s Day to celebrate Charles Darwin instead. These Are the 20 Quirkiest Towns in America 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z With grit, provisions and a pretty coffee-table book about the island that suggests her romanticism, or perhaps naïveté, Rike is following Charles Darwin to Ascension. ‘Styx’ Review: The Refugee Crisis as Moral Thriller 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z But just what is a reference to the evolutionist Charles Darwin doing in an episode of "The Handmaid's Tale"? How Darwin’s sexual selection theory co-stars in "The Handmaid’s Tale" 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z When most of us hear the word “evolution” we think of Charles Darwin or the Lucy skeleton. A New York Museum Staple Gets a New Glimmer 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Someone picks up a box labeled Charles Darwin, and that inspires chatter about how he died. | 'Our Lot': When What?s Left of a Man Is Found in His Collections 2011-06-14T22:30:35Z “Orchidelirium,” which opens on Saturday, evokes this heady time, when imperial ambition and ruthless acquisitiveness coexisted with the high-minded thirst for knowledge epitomized by naturalists like Charles Darwin, himself no stranger to orchid fever. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Instead, like Charles Darwin, he notes that “such a huge dimension of life must serve many functions.” Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In fact, at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island, he announced, "Personally, I just don't believe that human beings evolved from worms." GalÁpagos Checklist: Six Points to Remember 2010-12-16T12:50:00Z But part of her appeal was her very firmness on subjects like Charles Darwin, the differences between France and England during the Enlightenment, and marriage in the Victorian era. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin posited the theory of natural selection – the notion that, over millennia, Earth's thriving creatures adapt themselves to their environment. TV highlights 12/03/2013 2013-03-12T07:00:16Z Tales of monsters and supernatural doings — by Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker, to name a better-known few — sat on bookshelves alongside volumes by Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z A similar restlessness permeated “The Comedy of Change,” composed in 2009 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.” Music Review: New Music With the Energy of Youth 2010-12-19T22:07:59Z In 1837, Charles Darwin sketched a spindly tree of life in one of his notebooks. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In 1872, Charles Darwin connected facial expressions to emotional experiences in "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," basically saying that smiling even when you're upset can help subside your anger. How I started writing for TV: The case against "fake it til you make it" 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Expelled from the theater for inspiring communist rabble rousers, Chloe is forced to abandon her art and take a job as a nanny with Emma and Charles Darwin. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z See the Dodo, dinosaurs and Charles Darwin’s bug collection. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin always said that the theory of natural selection occurred to him on 28 September 1838 while he was reading Thomas Malthus's essay on population; suddenly, the mechanism of evolution seemed blindingly straightforward. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin separately and simultaneously developed the theory of evolution. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Alfred Russell Wallace in 1900: the Welsh naturalist developed a theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z For example, a photograph of Charles Darwin suggests life as a struggle — psychically and physically — which is certainly a theme here. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z "I'm not getting involved in the creative process at all," says Pearson, who masterminded a similar project to mark the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth, two years ago. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z It released a Charles Darwin film "Creation" in seven theaters last weekend. 2010-01-29T07:14:00Z Feminist scholars have noted that Charles Darwin’s focus on aggressive males vying to impregnate “choosy” females echoed notions of proper Victorian behavior. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z Being raised in physically, emotionally and intellectually stimulating environments might, as biologist Charles Darwin theorized, account for the larger brains seen in some species, compared with their domesticated counterparts. Animal Doctor: Vaccinations shouldn’t follow illness or surgery 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “If I live till I am 80 years old,” Charles Darwin wrote to a friend in November 1837, “I shall not cease to marvel at finding myself an author.” Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin brought together artistic portrayals of the human face with his own observations of the natural world to demonstrate this in his 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life 2013-06-06T14:37:56Z Charles Darwin, Mr. Mabey writes, was the first person to reveal “the barely credible devices orchids used to conscript insect pollinators.” Review: In ‘The Cabaret of Plants,’ Richard Mabey Demonstrates Their Richness 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin put together a petition. Can paper survive the digital age? 2012-11-09T09:20:27Z If just one winner would get up at the Oscars and make an acceptance speech that began not with an expression of gratitude to God but with “I want to thank Charles Darwin.” Review: ‘Rap Guide to Religion’ Examines Why Humanity Created God 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics, compares the “willy-nilly disposition of the female” to a butterfly. A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z His ashes will be interred between major British scientific figures Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, a location made famous worldwide for generations of royal coronations, weddings and funerals. Stephen Hawking's voice to be beamed into space at final send-off 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Photograph: Channel 4 A series on ecosystems begins with the islands that gave Charles Darwin so much material when he was formulating his theory of evolution. TV highlights 16/07/2012 2012-07-15T18:59:01Z "Dazzled and Deceived" traces how the phenomenon of mimicry in nature, discovered by 19th century English naturalists Henry Bates and Alfred Wallace, was seized upon as independent validation of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. Book on mimicry, camouflage wins UK Warwick Prize 2011-03-22T20:36:38Z Before Charles Darwin, Westerners saw the peacock’s beauty as a gift from God to what we assumed was his favorite creation: people. That Most Enchanting Bird in the World 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z More important, she discovers his friendship with his neighbor, an actual historical personage, the 19th-century biologist Mary Treat, who corresponded with Charles Darwin. Barbara Kingsolver’s New Novel Moves Between the Distant Past and the Troubled Present 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Englishman Francis Galton—a cousin of Charles Darwin—started this whole spurious exercise in 1883 when he came up with the concept of eugenics. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z Providers like Quasar are also plastic-free and support the national park and organizations like the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos Scouts, organizations whose researchers work to preserve the species that attract foreigners. Going to the Galápagos Is Easier and Cheaper Than Ever. That Might Not Be a Good Thing. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z You know this movement as eugenics, a term first coined by Charles Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton. In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z And that's about as much as he reveals about himself, frustrating the songwriter in Knightley, who considers Sharp a far tougher nut to crack than Charles Darwin. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z Jukes’s observations on his 1843 expedition seemed to endorse Charles Darwin’s theory that slowly sinking ocean floors spurred coral growth. A world in water 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin was born in 1809 into an affluent British family. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z Also an acclaimed poet, Ballou wrote a verse portrait of Charles Darwin called "The Darwin Poems." PBS' 'Masterpiece' to adapt Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Signature of All Things' 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z At Down House, his country home in Kent, Charles Darwin worried about the implausibility of long-distance dispersal, especially dispersal over water. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z In the interim we get shipwrecks, snowstorms, emigration, a gold rush, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin and images of rampant British imperialism. Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir (Aurores) – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-24T17:12:38Z The Ledge is a first film from Matthew Chapman, an expatriate Brit descended from Charles Darwin. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z Three decades after Carolus Linnaeus’s death, Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England, the fifth child of a prosperous physician. Secrets of Charles Darwin’s breakthrough: The real story of how we got to evolution 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Napoleon was imprisoned and died there, and Charles Darwin and Capt. James Cook made stops there. One final chance to sail to St. Helena, a remote island in the Atlantic 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A 2007 study from the Charles Darwin Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes wildlife research, reported that there were 65 hotels on the islands in 2006. Is Land Tourism Threatening the Galápagos? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “The archipelago is a little world within itself,” a young Charles Darwin mused in his London study in 1839. Going to the Galápagos Is Easier and Cheaper Than Ever. That Might Not Be a Good Thing. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z During his field work, Audubon discovered more than two dozen new species and was lauded by 19th century scientists such as Charles Darwin for his efforts. Philly museum brings 'Birds of America' to public 2011-11-26T17:33:09Z He was superseded in the many fields he helped pioneer by younger scientists, including Charles Darwin. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Great thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Darwin were famous for their long walks.” 25 Habits That Will Make You Smarter 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z "We may all be netted together," Charles Darwin scribbled in his notebook. The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Alas, he didn’t live to see the birth of his grandson: Charles Darwin. A Transporting and Cozy Biography of a Pottery Pioneer 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Nearby, in that same area full of scientists, lie Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin: He sailed, saw hidden areas, was in awe. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Topics: , , , , , Charles Darwin, , Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street" Excerpted from "It’s a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind" Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z Charles Darwin visited in 1835 and was inspired to write his seminal work, “The Origin of Species.” What To Read Before Your Galápagos Vacation 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The standard model proposes that limited resources — food, shelter, good-quality mates, etc. — force organisms and the genes they carry to compete in what Charles Darwin called the struggle for existence. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z And, third — size rarely matters, though Schilthuizen does tell us that in that well-known era of prudery, the Victorian Charles Darwin discovered the most well endowed animal in the world. ‘Nature’s Nether Regions’: how birds, bees and all the rest do it 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z In the wake of the successful surgery, he seemed cheerfully resilient, writing of the experience: “When Charles Darwin gave us each two balls, he intended one as a spare. Hallelujah.” Will Welch Leads GQ to ‘the New Masculinity’ 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Johnson begins with young Charles Darwin on an atoll awash with life, and wondering: Why is this place so much richer in life than the sea around it? 'Where Good Ideas Come From': Steven Johnson asks why great ideas arise where they do 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z He lived a long and exalted life, dying at the ripe age of 89, in 1859, the same year his admirer Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The garden is a sanctuary — for plants, animals, Mother Earth and you 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z America experienced a naturalist revival in the late 1800s, a belated enlightenment inspired by the likes of Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau. Restoring Acadia’s Trails 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Alfred Russell Wallace in 1900: the Welsh naturalist developed a theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z A first edition of The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin, in front of a portrait of the author, at the Royal Society. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z Among the citizens of Vineland was Mary Treat, a self-taught naturalist who corresponded with Charles Darwin and supported herself as a science writer. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Attitudes shifted after Charles Darwin published “The Descent of Man” in 1871 and perspectives on the relationship between humans and other animals changed. Hair-erasing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z They go back at least as far as Charles Darwin, and I got them from the historian J. H. Hexter. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z As a youth Beard had been entranced by Karen Blixen’s memoir “Out of Africa” and charmed Charles Darwin’s great-grandson, the explorer Quentin Keynes, into giving him a tour of the continent. Roaringly Adventurous, in the Wild and in the Bedroom 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But Rabbit Snare Gorge injects the island’s static saltbox vernacular with sudden kinetic energy, an argument for the 20th-century theory that evolution happens not gradually, as Charles Darwin suggested, but in dramatic bursts. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z For nourishment, there is a row of Italian and seafood restaurants on Avenida Charles Darwin. In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Grayling, the author of “Against All Gods” and “The Good Book: A Humanist Bible,” and Matthew Chapman, a journalist and filmmaker who also happens to be Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z The most important is that species evolve by natural selection, the bedrock idea of evolutionary biology proposed by Charles Darwin. When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Others are like books of the Old Testament, rewritten by Charles Darwin. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z The book in question is Charles Darwin's "Descent of Man," which Lawrence calls "an oldie but a goodie." How Darwin’s sexual selection theory co-stars in "The Handmaid’s Tale" 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z As for a good “cause,” if Methfessel wanted to give away some of her inheritance, Bishop asked her to consider the Charles Darwin Research Center in the Galápagos Islands. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z For readers, Charles Darwin, born in 1809, apparently never gets old. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But until the mid-19th century — when the sciences became professionalized, and when Charles Darwin and others put Christian doctrine under pressure — a woman’s place was in the laboratory, or among the geology and zoology specimens. Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z There’s a wonderful little marginal admonition to himself in one of Charles Darwin’s notebooks: Never say higher or lower. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Around this time, though, he performed outstandingly well on a state-sponsored examination, which led to his enrollment in a science program overseen by Charles Darwin’s champion, Thomas Henry Huxley. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In turn, the elderly composer had known, for the first 10 years of his life, his great-uncle, Charles Darwin. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Wallace wrote down his idea and sent it to Charles Darwin, who had been contemplating a similar theory of evolution for more than a decade. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z It was also a moment when Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and the future prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, then chancellor of the Exchequer, faced pivotal and stressful tests of their character and careers. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Season With Dickens, Darwin and Disraeli 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z At The Public Domain Review, Stassa Edwards looks at a strange series of photos that helped Charles Darwin develop the theories presented in his 1872 book “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.” Weekend Reading: A Family of Bank Robbers, Darwin's Interest in Photography, and More 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Described as "equal parts Elizabeth Bennet and Charles Darwin," Alma is a brilliant scientist who struggles to fulfill her intellectual ambitions in an era of severely limited roles for women. PBS' 'Masterpiece' to adapt Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Signature of All Things' 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Despite Albrecht’s lack of scientific training, a professor at Charles Darwin University, Stephen Garnett, encouraged him to enlist in the school’s conservation biology doctoral program. A Boxed Set for the Birds Hopes to Save Them, Too 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z A presence in the village … Down House, the home of Charles Darwin. Mr Darwin's Gardener – review 2013-06-25T10:29:10Z Recent research conducted by Charles Darwin University reveals some of the unique brand values of Australian agri-food products, including unique selling points of products from the Northern Territory. What’s in a name? Quite a lot if it’s prosecco, parmesan or mozzarella 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In yet another pleasant digression, he provides a portrayal of Charles Darwin, the naturalist, and originator of the theory of the evolution of species. 'At Home': Bill Bryson constructs a history of private life 2010-10-06T23:05:00Z The greatest thinkers in history, like Charles Darwin, Ingmar Bergman and Alice Munro, all realized that maximum productivity requires only about four hours a day of focused work. The Workaholic's Case for a Four-Hour Day 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Having become excited by the truth of the radical ideas of Charles Darwin, he will be in jeopardy if he discusses them with his students. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin lost two of his children to scarlet fever; it just seemed so, well, Victorian. TB and scarlet fever: why Victorian diseases are making a comeback 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The texts, which change daily, are by authors from Aristotle to Charles Darwin to the poet Ann Lauterbach, whose names are posted at the entrance. Art Review: Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory 2012-12-06T23:27:44Z In his “Missa Charles Darwin,” for example, Gregory W. Brown replaces the original sacred Latin prayers with texts culled from “The Origin of Species,” “The Descent of Man,” and Darwin’s correspondence. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z As a young boy, Charles Darwin’s son Leonard earnestly asked a friend, “Where does your father do his barnacles?,” thinking that all fathers spent their days peering at barnacles under a microscope. A Year Without Oliver Sacks 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Applauding their effort Friday was Sarah Darwin, the great great granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Saving Brazil’s golden monkey, one green corridor at a time 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z As conceived by Charles Darwin in the 1800s, evolution is a slow, gradual process during which species adaptations are inherited incrementally over generations. Bacteria-virus arms race provides rare window into rapid and complex evolution 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Studying these birds helped Charles Darwin develop the theory of evolution by natural selection. Fruit, nectar, bugs and blood: How bat teeth and jaws evolved for a diverse dinnertime 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The phenomenon of scary play surprised Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z In 1860 Charles Darwin wrote, “The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!” What these flashy feathers reveal about the secret lives of birds 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The British botanist was joined by a handful of young naturalists who are retracing the sailboat expedition taken by Charles Darwin nearly 200 years ago that led to his theory of evolution. Saving Brazil’s golden monkey, one green corridor at a time 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z These fundamental questions of agency -- acting with purpose -- have perplexed some of the greatest minds in history including Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger and Niels Bohr. Eureka baby! Groundbreaking study uncovers origin of 'conscious awareness' 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin was a very famous scientist who lived in the 1800s. Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned After 20 Years 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Two missing notebooks belonging to the scientist Charles Darwin were secretly returned to the Cambridge University Library recently. 2022 Year in Review: Unusual News Stories 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin University wildfire researcher Rohan Fisher said the fire was unusual in its large size and that it was encroaching on a community. Australian authorities protect Outback town against huge wildfire 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z After Charles Darwin happened across “vast rings of coral-rock” while voyaging through the southern Pacific Ocean on the Beagle, he wrote that upon seeing them, “everyone must be struck with astonishment.” Like hard-working farmers, corals cultivate and eat their resident algae 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin himself spent eight years on barnacle science after finding an “ill formed little monster” during his voyage on the Beagle. Barnacles could help solve the mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z She said Charles Darwin’s greatest legacy was recognizing the place of humans in nature. Ship sets sail from England to retrace Charles Darwin’s voyage nearly 200 years later 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Even evolution's pioneering scientist Charles Darwin knew that. What is a man? Even Darwin rejected the myth of the “alpha male” 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z That was part of an effort by local politicians to foster “local nationalism” and create a sense of “territory exceptionalism and rugged individualism,” said Rolf Gerritsen, a political scientist at Charles Darwin University. Fireworks for All, One Day Only, in Australia’s Last Frontier 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z As early as 1839, Charles Darwin described this species as a major agricultural pest in South America. Parrots Are Taking Over the World 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z And every year for more than 60 years, David Austin Roses has named one or two new varieties after historical British figures, including Queen Elizabeth II, Emily Brontë, Roald Dahl and Charles Darwin. Prestigious Rose Breeder Names Its New Bloom for a Black Gardener 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z And then I thought about history, Charles Darwin and all the famous scientists that we think of as scientists weren’t scientists, they were naturalists. Local author and naturalist Kelly Brenner on her new book, ‘The Naturalist At Home’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Even scientist Charles Darwin, who discovered evolution, appears to have been unaware of Mendel's work during his lifetime, even though Mendel sent him a copy of his paper, which Darwin never opened. Gregor Mendel, father of genetics, couldn't get anyone to listen to him — but he got the last laugh 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin, who had published “On the Origin of Species” two years earlier, was delighted. How Did Birds First Take Off? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Zoologists had long regarded biological forms as innate, and Charles Darwin argued that natural selection sculpts them to be adapted to their environment. Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create New Life-Forms 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z They played key roles in scientific achievements such as Carl Linnaeus's development of binomial nomenclature and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The Connection between Allergies and Climate Change 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Image a shows Charles Darwin’s sketch of lines branching, like those on a tree. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The buyback will free cash that Ecuador will put into conservation of its Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems and the inspiration for Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Ecuador frees cash for Galapagos conservation with $1.6 bln bond repurchase 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Scientists in India are protesting a decision to cut discussion of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from textbooks used by millions of ninth and 10th graders. News at a glance: U.S. tallies old-growth forests, Canadian scientists march for higher pay, and condor poop reveals the birds’ ancient history 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Scientists in India are protesting a decision to remove discussion of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from textbooks used by millions of students in ninth and 10th grades. Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z In the middle of the 19th century Charles Darwin realized that rather than being the “crown of creation,” humans are simply a natural product of evolution by means of natural selection. How Far Should We Take Our Cosmic Humility? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z These developments, as well as the results from embryology and paleontology, were synthesized in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The eye is so complex that even Charles Darwin was at a loss to explain how it could have arisen. An ancient gene stolen from bacteria set the stage for human sight 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z In 1864, famed political cartoonist Thomas Nast portrayed Abraham Lincoln as an ape, this just seven years after the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.” Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson’s unholy alliance 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Evolution's ability to solve problems is, according to Charles Darwin himself, “immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts.” Here’s What Scientists Are Learning about Women’s Health from Other Female Animals 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The project officially ended last month, and last week the 30th and final volume of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin rolled off the presses. News at a glance: Darwin’s letters, antiracism in science, and protecting LGBTQ+ field researchers 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin is best known for his discovery of natural selection. In the mid-nineteenth century, the actual mechanism for evolution was independently conceived of and described by two naturalists: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Galapagos Islands, with its unique wildlife, was a key force behind British scientist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Endangered pink iguana hatchlings seen for first time on Galapagos island 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin proposed that facial expressions are universal: a smile conveys happiness; a frown indicates sadness. This Year’s Most Thought-Provoking Brain Discoveries 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z These subvariants are going through a process that Charles Darwin recognized some 160 years ago, called convergence. Happy Birthday, Omicron 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z I like to compare that effort with how Charles Darwin studied Galápagos finches. Why do people have slips of the tongue? 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin discussed how artificial selection had been successful in producing change over time in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Six decades later Charles Darwin surmised that walking on two legs freed the hands to use tools. Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Scientists believe that disgust originally concerned food; Charles Darwin noted “how readily this feeling is excited by anything unusual in the appearance, odour, or nature of our food.” Why Do People Love Gross and Scary Things? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z In these gentle but stirring essays, writer Kay Harel happily diagnoses Charles Darwin with “a singular case of biophilia,” or profound love of life, that engenders empathy, creativity and an intuitive sense of truth. Uncertainty Can Speed Up Climate Action 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Even Charles Darwin pondered the possibility of a "warm little pond," later described as a "primordial soup" by Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin, which could form the proteins necessary for making amino acids. Ocean spray may have created conditions for life to form on Earth, new study suggests 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The term “Darwinian beekeeping” is a nod to Charles Darwin’s principle that natural selection over time gives species the ability to survive and reproduce. A once-obscure type of beekeeping could help save colonies 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin once described the Galápagos as “a little world within itself.” Endangered giant tortoises in Galápagos being killed for meat, officials fear 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Giant Galapagos tortoises have a lifespan of more than 100 years and are synonymous with Charles Darwin, who pioneered the theory of evolution by studying them. Ecuador fears Galapagos tortoises were hunted and eaten 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z How did observations of finches by Charles Darwin visiting the Galapagos Islands in the 1800s provide the foundation for our modern understanding of evolution? Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The details of what happens were worked out over a century ago by George Darwin, the son of naturalist Charles Darwin. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin had first published his theory of natural selection in 1859, and by the 1920s, many standard textbooks contained information about Darwin’s theory of evolution. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Crocodiles eat whatever is easiest, and feral pigs are the perfect size,” said Mariana Campbell, a researcher at Charles Darwin University in Australia who studies saltwater crocodiles in the country’s north. Pigs to the Rescue: An Invasive Species Helped Save Australia’s Crocodiles 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z After his visit to the islands in 1835, scientist Charles Darwin was inspired to develop the theory of evolution, about how living things with certain traits survive over time. Summer of KidsPost: Enjoying science and history 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Ultimately, these theories were disproven by scientists, but their development contributed to the theory of evolution that was finally formulated by Charles Darwin. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z At about the same time, Charles Darwin had published his treatise on evolution. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Other thinkers of the day took Charles Darwin’s theories in a more nuanced direction, focusing on different theories of realism that sought to understand the truth underlying the changes in the United States. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Limiting factors produce the pressures of natural selection at the heart of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Natural selection as a mechanism for evolution was independently conceived of and described by two naturalists, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, in the mid-nineteenth century. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The ideas of Hutton and Lyell influenced the work of Charles Darwin. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Originating from the work of Charles Darwin in the mid-19th century, the theory of evolution has withstood generations of scientific testing for falsifiability. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Notebooks written by Charles Darwin, which were mysteriously returned to Cambridge University Library after going missing for 20 years, are going on public display. Charles Darwin: Notebooks lost for 20 years go on display in Cambridge 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution from many hypotheses. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin, in developing his theory of natural selection, was influenced by the English clergyman Thomas Malthus. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The mechanisms of inheritance, or genetics, were not understood at the time Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were developing their idea of natural selection. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “But the sad thing is not knowing those other Chuck Ds,” he continued, referring to Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens, whose names were also responses in the category. Misidentified Chuck D says everybody doesn’t 'know everything,' even on 'Jeopardy' 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z "Whether encountered as a raw young adventurer, a family man, or a grey-bearded celebrity, Charles Darwin had an infectious curiosity about the world around him." Charles Darwin: Notebooks lost for 20 years go on display in Cambridge 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In the years since the 1859 publication of "On the Origin of Species," Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution have become foundational to the field of biology. A microscopic arms race is happening between sperm 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin recognized this fact in his description of the “struggle for existence,” which states that individuals will compete, with members of their own or other species, for limited resources. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Evolutionary trees have been around since Charles Darwin, who used the idea of a “tree of life” to map out the relationships between humans and primates. Classifying animals by anatomy might not be best system, study says 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The city sits on the Beagle Channel, named after the British research ship that Charles Darwin sailed on. Falkland Islands: Loss echoes across Argentina 40 years on 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z More than 100 years ago, Charles Darwin forced Christians to an uncomfortable reckoning over the Bible. CRT, Trumpism and doubt roil Biola University. Is this the future of evangelical Christianity? 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Since the days of Charles Darwin, the long necks of giraffes have been a textbook example of evolution. Giraffes May Be Long-Necked for Fights, Not Just Food 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin proposed that chickens descended from the red jungle fowl—a colorful tropical bird in the pheasant family–because the two look so much alike. How the wild jungle fowl became the chicken 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin assumed the driver of natural selection was food, as animals with longer necks could reach higher trees and have their own private food supply with little competition from other species. This ancient giraffe relative head-butted rivals with an ‘amazing sexual weapon’ 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z And for decades, researchers have named species after their colleagues or iconic researchers as a way to honor them, which is why some 300 species of animals are named after Charles Darwin. Do species names perpetuate gender bias in science? 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z They also often cite Charles Darwin’s 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals to support the claim that universal expressions evolved by natural selection. Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z On Dec. 17, 1832, Charles Darwin put pen to paper as the British survey ship Beagle dropped anchor off Tierra del Fuego, the remote archipelago at the southern tip of South America. Going all in on adventure in Patagonia 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Long popular with tourists paying a visit to God's Own Country, the lure of its reputedly rejuvenating spa waters is said to have brought Charles Darwin to the town in the 1800s. Ilkley: A tour of the Sunday Times' best place to live winner 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen. 'Stolen' Charles Darwin notebooks left on library floor in pink gift bag 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The biological questions would puzzle Europeans for centuries, until Charles Darwin proposed his answers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z They could now write about facial expressions as universal and claim to be the heirs of the unassailable Charles Darwin. Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z No scientific idea of modern times aroused more controversy than the work of English naturalist Charles Darwin. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A nearby volcano on the same island, Isabela, is named after Charles Darwin, who came up with his theory of evolution after studying finches on the archipelago in the 1830s. This Galápagos Volcano Produced a ‘Mesmerizing’ River of Fire 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Neo-Darwinism refers to any branch of science which combines Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's discipline of genetics. Biologists surprised to discover that some "random" mutations may not be so random 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Emotion, as Charles Darwin came to believe, often supplies an evolutionary advantage. Why our emotions are so powerful 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z He was seen by many as the greatest naturalist of his generation and a possible heir to Charles Darwin. The natural world loses two of its biggest advocates 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin was a naturalist, but a number of 19th-century thinkers tried to apply his ideas to economics and politics. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson was an award-winning biologist and professor at Harvard and Duke universities and earned the nickname of the natural heir to Charles Darwin. Leading American naturalist EO Wilson, dubbed 'Darwin's heir', dies at 92 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z “Songs of Disappearance” was produced by Charles Darwin University doctoral candidate Anthony Albrecht and is composed of sounds collected by David Stewart, a renowned wildlife sound recordist, among other collaborators. Flying high on the Australian charts: An album of endangered birdsongs 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z One in six Australian birds are now threatened, according to a study by Charles Darwin University - that is, 216 out of 1,299 species. Bird songs bump stars off Australian music chart 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin probably never imagined that natural selection unfolds in our bone marrow. Dangerous blood condition may guard against Alzheimer’s disease 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z In this theory, Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” were applied to human society. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin described bees' ability to build perfect honeycombs as “the most wonderful of all known instincts.” The Surprising Architecture in Bees’ Honeycombs 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z And yet independently, but simultaneously with Charles Darwin, naturalist Wallace did just that. Forgotten discoverer of natural selection honoured by Bill Bailey 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Among those praising the move is Sarah Darwin, the great-great-granddaughter of biologist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution was inspired by the biodiversity he found on the Galapagos. Galapagos marine reserve: Conservationists hail expansion 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin first recognized this change in our ancient anatomy. How Humans Lost Their Tails 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin, as he sailed near South America on a dark night aboard the H.M.S. Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z But he could equally well have been describing his contemporary Charles Darwin's experience with his theory of evolution by natural selection. When Lord Kelvin Nearly Killed Darwin's Theory 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Betancourt was one of 74 Galapagos residents hired and trained to sample the genetic diversity in the small island chain that famously inspired Charles Darwin in his description of evolution. Local citizen scientists map genetics of Darwin’s Galapagos 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin was one of the first researchers to describe hybrid vigor. Why does corn grow so well? Scientists think soil microbes play a role 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z A far-fetched idea, one might think, until the author reveals that Charles Darwin postulated the very same thing in the mid-19th century. Review | We’re at home among trees — which might be able to sense our presence 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z A naturalist and renowned navigator, his research laid the groundwork for Charles Darwin’s theories and added more than 1,000 citations to the Oxford English Dictionary. Review | A history of horrors, committed in the name of science 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Among his clients and associates were Josiah Wedgwood, who industrialized the production of pottery, and Erasmus Darwin, a physician-botanist-poet and the grandfather of evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin. 'The Blue Boy' for 'A Bird': The Joseph Wright painting at the center of a Huntington swap 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution wasn’t published until 8 years after Morton’s death, found Morton’s understanding of species facile and his arguments unreliable. A racist scientist built a collection of human skulls. Should we still study them? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin knew this full well, observing in The Descent of Man that birds have a natural aesthetic sense. Mockingbirds Are Better Musicians Than We Thought 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Hawking’s personal reference library and his papers are being preserved by Cambridge University Library, which also holds the papers of other scientific giants, such as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s office and archives at Cambridge to be preserved by British museum group 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The Wallace’s owlet and five other birds honor Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer and anthropologist credited, along with Charles Darwin, for conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. Bird lovers are grappling with honorary names linked to racists. Audubon tops the list. For nearly a century after Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution by natural selection in 1859, biologists struggled to identify precisely what caused adaptive traits to be inherited by future generations. It’s time to consign the “selfish gene” to the history books 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Hawking's archive joins those of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at the library, just as his ashes were interred at London's Westminster Abbey between those two other giants of British science. Stephen Hawking's office and archive to get UK homes 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet how they evolved has befuddled evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin. Exquisite fossils unearthed in Inner Mongolia reveal how peas got their hard coat 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Like Charles Darwin’s findings, Simard’s results are so revolutionary and controversial that they have quickly worked their way into social theory, urban planning, culture and art. Review | A scientist’s career in communion with trees 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The formation, named after the English biologist Charles Darwin, is considered a top diving location. Galapagos Islands: Erosion fells Darwin's Arch 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The idea that selfishness and greed are drivers of evolution, and therefore possess underlying virtue, has been around for over a century, ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution became widely accepted. It’s time to consign the “selfish gene” to the history books 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z This work was noted by Charles Darwin in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, where he proposed possible mechanisms for the birth, change, and death of species. On Exploring Mars and Saving Endangered Species 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Ma told Salon that the pterosaur they discovered belongs to a group known as Darwinoptera, named after the English biologist Charles Darwin best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. Pterosaurs with thumbs? Scientists say yes, a "monkeydactyl" once existed 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin wrote about this issue when dealing with the evolution of groups or tribes. Opinion | Healthy and refusing a covid vaccine? Shame on you. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z In 1872, Charles Darwin proposed that disgust was an innate emotion that evolved because it helped our ancestors avoid eating tainted food. Disgusted by spoiled food? You may be protecting yourself from disease 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin first recognized convergent evolution by studying living animals. 7 Virus Variants Found in U.S. Carrying the Same Mutation 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z As Charles Darwin noted in "On the Origin of Species," the farther back in time you go, the less fossilized creatures resemble modern creatures. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin considered smell to be “of extremely slight service” to humans. What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A scientist has shed new light on the origins of Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery". New light shed on Charles Darwin's 'abominable mystery' 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The arboreal analogy is just our traditional way of illustrating evolution, made canonical by Charles Darwin. How viruses shape our world 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The book’s authors, cognitive scientists at Duke University, contend that the most widely accepted meaning may not be what Charles Darwin, the phrase’s commonly accepted originator, meant at all. A fetching alternative to the dog-eat-dog workplace 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin, who greeted that number with some skepticism, himself was invested in exploring the universality of facial expressions as evidence of humanity’s common evolutionary history. A Smile at a Wedding, a Cheer at a Soccer Game Are Alike the World Over 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The students will all attend Charles Darwin University, with some new to the campus and others previously enrolled. Australia hosts first group of overseas students since virus 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z In July 1937, Charles Darwin was a young man of 28. Charles Darwin: Notepads worth millions lost for 20 years 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z On Nov. 24, 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Today in History 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Tourigny chalks the shift up to Charles Darwin and other scientific luminaries of the time, whose writings put animals on more equal footing with humans. Dogs and cats became family—and got their shot at heaven—after World War II 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The coronavirus has hit Ecuador’s idyllic Galapagos Islands, which once helped Charles Darwin refine his theory of evolution and natural selection. Crisis in the Galapagos: Chinese fishing fleets and COVID-19 threaten a natural wonder 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Simon Maddocks, the vice chancellor of Charles Darwin University, told reporters they have been working with officials for seven months to make the trip happen. Australia hosts first group of overseas students since virus 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin was an English scientist - naturalist, geologist and biologist - best known for his work on the theory of evolution by natural selection. Charles Darwin: Notepads worth millions lost for 20 years 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Mary Somerville did this in her synthetic and accessible exploration of the connections among the sciences, as did Charles Darwin in writing “On the Origin of Species.” Review | Polymaths want to know everything — but ‘everything’ isn’t what it used to be 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Instead of the Queen, Charles Darwin or Jane Austen on their notes, HSCB’s currency celebrated local heroes. Big bang theory: how blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin documented the rich biota of these islands in the early 1800s. Crisis in the Galapagos: Chinese fishing fleets and COVID-19 threaten a natural wonder 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z In 1859, 14 years after the founding of this magazine, Charles Darwin published the most important scientific book ever written. How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z To the contrary, history demonstrates that polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla were all responsible for foundational breakthroughs in science. The Dangers of Intellectual Territorialism 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z He saw himself as an heir to the great scientific innovators of the past, none of whom he held in higher esteem than Charles Darwin. How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z By 1871 Charles Darwin had concluded that all living humans were descended from the same ancestral stock. Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species 14 years after Scientific American was established, transforming our understanding of life on Earth and of our own history as a species. Celebrating Scientific American ’s 175th Anniversary 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z In 1872, with the publication of "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," Charles Darwin went rogue. Darwin, Expression, and the lasting legacy of eugenics 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Wilson has long been one of Britain’s most productive cultural historians, never afraid to tackle subjects as big and well-covered as Tolstoy, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin and even his home city of London. Review: The demons that dogged Charles Dickens 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin made observations critical to his theory of evolution on the islands. Ecuador on alert over huge Chinese fishing fleet 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the Galápagos Islands, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels found near Galápagos Islands 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z British naturalist Charles Darwin got it right, but maybe we got Darwin wrong. ‘Friendliest,’ not fittest, is key to evolutionary survival, scientists argue in book 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z In 2014, she was the first woman to receive the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society of London’s highest accolade; previous recipients of the medal were Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz. She’s an Authority on Earth’s Past. Now, Her Focus Is the Planet’s Future. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The 19th century German zoologist is known for his influence on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Amid protests against racism, scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z And there was a delicious cider that Cosmo and I made with apples collected from the orchard at Charles Darwin’s house, which we called Evolution. A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z They ranged from historical figures such as Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to contemporary scientists such as Jane Goodall. Black women scientists missing from textbooks, study shows 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Virtually synonymous with the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, they were one of the species that helped Charles Darwin form his theory of evolution in the 19th century. After saving their species, giant Galapagos tortoises head home 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z All of these changes are typical of what Charles Darwin labeled domestication syndrome. Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It's reported he will now be stuffed and exhibited in Moscow's popular museum of biology named after Charles Darwin. Alligator who survived WW2 Berlin bombing dies 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z The Charles Darwin Foundation donated two of the new ventilators. Pandemic upends life on isolated, idyllic Galapagos Islands 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Following the tradition of naturalists such as Carl Linnaeus and Charles Darwin, Dr. Randall spent much of his career classifying organisms, engaging in the laborious and tedious branch of science known as taxonomy. Jack Randall, marine taxonomist known as ‘Dr. Fish,’ dies at 95 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In 2007, he won the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’s most prestigious prize, previously won by Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Dorothy Hodgkin among others. Robert May, former UK chief scientist and chaos theory pioneer, dies aged 84 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Nearly 150 years ago, Charles Darwin proposed that facial expressions in animals might provide a window onto their emotions, as they do in humans. Artificial intelligence decodes the facial expressions of mice 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The skull’s discovery provided the first evidence indicating the accuracy of British naturalist Charles Darwin’s prediction a half century earlier that humans originated in Africa because African apes were our closest living relatives. Landmark skull fossil provides surprising human evolution clues 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z At the Charles Darwin Foundation, researchers had been studying a species of parasitic flies, which likely arrived over 30 years ago on a plane or boat. Pandemic upends life on isolated, idyllic Galapagos Islands 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z One person who pushed this view was Charles Darwin. Why faces don’t always tell the truth about feelings 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z According to the Conservancy, between 20,000 and 25,000 tortoises are estimated to live on the island that once inspired Charles Darwin. Descendants from extinct tortoise species discovered in Galapagos 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The islands, whose variety of endemic species helped inspire Charles Darwin, were home to 15 closely related species of tortoise, according to the Conservancy, which estimates that 20,000-25,000 wild tortoises live there. Galápagos experts find a tortoise related to Lonesome George 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Jeremy Russell-Smith, a bushfire expert at Charles Darwin University, said this quashing of traditional fire techniques happened not only in Australia, but also in North and South America, Asia and Africa. Reducing Fire, and Cutting Carbon Emissions, the Aboriginal Way 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The tortoise center on Santa Cruz was established by the Charles Darwin Research Station in 1965, the Galápagos Conservancy said on its website. Diego, the Tortoise Whose High Sex Drive Helped Save His Species, Retires 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The indigenous species found on the Galápagos, including iguanas and tortoises, played a key role in the development of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Species-saving tortoise returns to Galápagos 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z These changes “are potentially quite a major risk to our biodiversity,” says Sam Banks, a conservation biologist at Charles Darwin University in Australia. Australia’s Bushfires Have Likely Devastated Wildlife—and the Impact Will Only Get Worse 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The diverse ecosystem inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution when he visited the island in 1835. Barge with 600 gallons of diesel fuel sinks off Galapagos Islands 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The Galápagos Islands, which are about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, are known for their role in inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution after he visited there in 1835. Barge With 600 Gallons of Diesel Sinks Off Galápagos Islands 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Located around 1,000 kilometers from mainland Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are home to a variety of flora and fauna that famously helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution following his 1835 visit. Ecuador concerned about recovery of sunken barge in Galapagos: minister 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Modern research is far removed from that done by the independent scientist of Charles Darwin’s day. Raising research quality will require collective action 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It was geologist Charles Lyell who calculated a rough figure for the age of the Earth and it was that knowledge that helped Charles Darwin to understand the timescale for the evolution of life. Brian Cox: Why I've been exploring our scientific past 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z The biodiversity there inspired Alfred Russel Wallace’s theories of evolution alongside those of Charles Darwin. Mining turned Indonesian seas red. The drive for greener cars could herald a new toxic tide. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin was vilified for contending that humans were the product of evolution. Editorials from around New England 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin didn’t just contribute to Nature himself. Daily briefing: Plastic outnumbers baby fish seven to one in marine nursery 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The peak named for Charles Darwin is in a remote and scenic section of the national park where several mountains are named for promoters of the theory of evolution. Body found in national park might be that of missing Orange County man 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Ever since Charles Darwin’s work provided the basis for understanding human evolution, there have been long-standing questions regarding when, why and how our early human ancestors begin to walk on two feet. Fossil ape hints at how walking on two feet evolved 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z This is an example of natural selection, the theory of evolution developed by Charles Darwin. Climate change alters red deer gene pool 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin is credited with the idea that life on Earth evolved in shallow pools of water. Charles Darwin may be wrong about where life started on Earth, stunning study says 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z This, of course, is where Charles Darwin also enters the frame. Science must move with the times 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In the autumn of 1869, Charles Darwin was hard at work revising the fifth edition of On The Origin of Species and drafting his next book, The Descent of Man, to be published in 1871. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin maintained a voluminous correspondence with fellow naturalists and lay enthusiasts in the Victorian era. Putting the ‘I’ in science 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Rare books, including an early color guide used by Charles Darwin, provided inspiration. Biophilic decor: Ways to bring the feel of nature indoors 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Biologist David Archibald examines an unsung hero of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory: historical biogeography, the natural history of species in time and place. The social-media war, reclaiming classics from the alt-right, and a fusion of physics and dance: New in paperback 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Nicolaus Copernicus had displaced us from the centre of the Universe; now Charles Darwin had displaced us from the centre of the living world. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In 1859, Charles Darwin, in his “Origin of Species,” put forth a theory suggesting that human beings might be descended not from Adam and Eve but from lower animals, things with fur. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin wrote about 40 short pieces in Nature, including a lot of letters to the editor, notes cell biologist Yongsheng Liu. Daily briefing: Dolphins frolic again in the Potomac River 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Among Charles Darwin’s lesser‑known publications are about 40 short pieces that appeared in Nature between 1869, the year in which the journal launched, and 1883, a year after the naturalist died. Darwin and Nature’s 150th anniversary 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z According to a quotation erroneously attributed to Charles Darwin: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Man v mosquito: what to do about our biggest killer 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z They’re named after Charles Darwin and the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper. The Work Diary of Parisa Tabriz, Google’s ‘Security Princess’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin was captivated by the species, compiling drawings and experiments for his book, Insectivorous Plants, published around 1876. Meat-eating plants making a comeback in England 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z And almost nowhere else on Earth is the need for conservation as acute as in the islands that greatly influenced Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Houston Zoo plans improvements, preps for 2022 centennial 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z After reading The Origin of Species, the prominent Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick wrote the following letter to Charles Darwin, his esteemed former student and field assistant: Toward a Positive Evolutionary Psychology 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Like Charles Darwin, he was vexed by what Darwin called an abominable mystery: How did nature generate such a diversity of flower colors and forms? Meet the monkeyflower, a weed that may hold the key to zebra stripes and other biological mysteries 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z While co-organizing a symposium a few years ago, a distinguished evolutionary psychologist named Nicholas Humphrey sought an expert to explore a mystery dating back to the time of Charles Darwin. Have humans developed natural defenses against suicide? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Among the later borns, he found lateral thinkers and revolutionaries, such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Mahatma Gandhi. Does Birth Order Affect Personality? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Small wonder Bennett – as well as Charles Darwin and Edmond Halley – fell for the place. ‘Rainfall has rocketed’: the remote weathermen charting the climate crisis 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z She compares the change in thinking needed to Charles Darwin’s work on the nature of species and how his research overturned a simplistic view of the animal kingdom. AI "emotion recognition" can’t be trusted 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z On its second voyage, the Beagle hosted the recently graduated naturalist Charles Darwin. The Voyage of the Beagle and the Future of Space Science 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Their campaign against their treatment won them national attention and prominent supporters such as Charles Darwin. Edinburgh gives female medical students their degrees – 150 years late 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The sprawling coastal park is home to several tidewater glaciers, deepwater fjords and a mountain range named after English naturalist Charles Darwin. Chilean salmon farmer pulls out of national park in Patagonia 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Critics described the agreement as allowing the United States to open a military base on the Galapagos, best known as the inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Ecuador defends decision to let the U.S. use the Galapagos Islands for anti-drug flights 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The Galápagos Islands are at the centre of political row in Ecuador after the government agreed to allow US anti-narcotics planes to use an airstrip on the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Galápagos Islands: outcry after Ecuador allows US military to use airstrip 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Tourists across the globe travel there to see its biodiversity, which inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Galapagos island 'to be used by US military' 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z “It’s survival of the fittest,” she said, invoking her favorite theorist, Charles Darwin. Tariffs pressure Chinese factories to upgrade or move, not to the U.S. but to a ‘second China’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It includes a microscope used by Charles Darwin and a six-planet "grand orrery" - a model of the solar system - dating from about 1750. Museum housing Darwin's microscope reopens 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Dung beetles — which fascinated Charles Darwin — were once divine symbols. The science of magic, dung beetles on parade, and the unexplored depths: Books in brief 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Seb Slater, executive director of Shrewsbury BID, which promotes businesses, said it was "excellent news" for the town, which is known as the birthplace of Charles Darwin. Shrewsbury to get own Monopoly board 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z At the heart of the nightingale effort is Sarah Darwin, a Berlin-based botanist who just happens to be the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z An island’s confines can rapidly spark evolutionary change; Charles Darwin saw this in finches’ beaks. Bones discovered in an island cave may be an early human species 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin referred1 to natural selection as “one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die”. Elimination of unfit cells in young and ageing skin 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z But when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, all known older rocks were barren of life. This Australian farmer is saving fossils of some of the planet’s weirdest, most ancient creatures 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z He was friends with other intellectual giants of his time, including polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Charles Darwin acknowledged the intellectual debt he owed Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt: the graphic novel 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The negotiation between the new medium of photography and traditional forms of art is encapsulated in an odd work Rejlander made at the behest of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. Review: Before there was Photoshop, there was 19th century photographer Oscar Rejlander 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Agassiz, a rival of Charles Darwin, subscribed to polygenesis, the theory that black and white people descended from different origins. Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? The Descendants, not Harvard, a Lawsuit Says 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The 256-year-old company is one of the oldest in the world, set up by Josiah Wedgwood, the grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin, in 1759. Job losses announced at Wedgwood 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Creatures such as the icefish are what Charles Darwin called “wrecks of ancient life,” because they lost important traits of their ancestors, like red blood cells and dense bones. How the Icefish Got Its Transparent Blood and See-Through Skull 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Wallace’s Giant Bee is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, an English entomologist who like Charles Darwin, worked to formulate the theory of evolution through natural selection. The World’s Largest Bee Is Not Extinct 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Among the more recent big shifts in how we conceive of supernatural communication occurred around the time of Charles Darwin, when there was an explosion of secular interest in the numinous, called spiritualism. Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The bee was first discovered in 1858 by naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace, who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin. The disappearing-reappearing act of the world's largest bee 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The Galapagos archipelago hosts unique species and wildlife whose characteristics helped Charles Darwin develop his theory of evolution. Tortoise feared extinct found on remote Galapagos island 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The cases include an appeal to return Neanderthal skulls to Gibraltar, and send the remains of an extinct sloth named after Charles Darwin back to Chile. Daily Briefing: What it’s like to be the ‘only one’ 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The new move would be no surprise to Charles Darwin, who in 1876 suggested that flowers in places with few pollinators would likely engage in self-fertilization. Watch this shy plant engage in some ‘self-love’ when it can’t find any pollinators 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z More than a century and a half after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking thesis on the development of life, evolution remains a contentious topic in the United States. How Many Creationists Are There in America? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Think of Randall Fuller’s “The Book That Changed America,” about the impact of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” upon a nation verging on civil war. Review | How America learned to think for itself 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z A British school scrapped the performance of a musical about scientist Charles Darwin following complaints from parents over the play’s lyrics and its representation of Christian views. British school cancels musical about Darwin following complaints from parents 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z A handwritten draft from Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found. Darwin draft stopped from leaving UK 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Darwin Rocks, about the scientist Charles Darwin, was due to be performed by about 90 pupils at Hartford Manor Primary School, Cheshire, next month. Darwin school play axed after complaints 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z While he was working on the various biological problems that obsessed him, Charles Darwin relentlessly bombarded friends and acquaintances with requests for information and specimens. From the archive 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z With apologies to Charles Darwin, there is grandeur in this view of life. Maxwell’s demon and the hunt for alien life 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z This prospect lost luster when, 138 days after the referendum, that republic elected Donald Trump, whom many of Charles Darwin’s countrymen think evolution passed by. Opinion | Theresa May’s Brexit plan isn’t dead yet 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z She's got a pedigree that goes back to Salem, but keeps her powers on the back burner; he's the scion of an old French line and a one-time pal of Charles Darwin. Review: The young and otherworldly of 'Roswell, New Mexico,' 'A Discovery of Witches' and 'Deadly Class' 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Mike Smith, managing director at Musicline, said the firm "asked Steve Titford - a practising Christian - and the writer of Shakespeare Rocks to write a factual musical about Charles Darwin's life and beliefs". Darwin school play axed after complaints 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. The Art of Decision-Making 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin followed that up in 1871 with “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” What’s behind the confidence of the incompetent? This suddenly popular psychological phenomenon. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The last recorded sighting of iguanas in Santiago Island was made by British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1835. Galapagos island gets its first iguanas since Darwin after mass-release 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And, finally, we explored the Galápagos with Charles Darwin, and discovered that it's not just finches evolving on those islands! 2018 Rosetta Stones Roundup: A Very Hot Year for Geology 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin penned this comment in a letter addressing those critics who accused him of being too theoretical in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The Case for Scientific Humanism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “Charles Darwin” is big and golden and lemon-scented. David Austin, plant breeder who restored fragrance and romance to the rose, dies at 92 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z When Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos, he noticed the tortoises’ shell shapes were unique adaptations to their environments. Seeking Clues to Longevity in Lonesome George’s Genes 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Across a shallow strip of sea lies the island of Santiago, where Charles Darwin once sighted marine iguanas, the only lizard that scours the ocean for food. As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z As Charles Darwin so succinctly put it, “Struggle for Existence”, that is the behavior we are seeing from the Republicans. With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z It's a scientific collection that goes back centuries, gathered by the likes of Carl Linnaeus, the "father of taxonomy", and Charles Darwin. Botanical treasures 'under huge threat' 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Jonatan Lassa, who researches disaster governance and emergency management at Charles Darwin University in Australia, said: “There is a kind of fatigue” in Indonesia. Indonesia’s disaster teams struggle to go it alone. That also makes them national heroes. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “Even after death, Lonesome George is teaching us things — just like his ancestors taught Charles Darwin.” Seeking Clues to Longevity in Lonesome George’s Genes 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z He then adds to the array a toy she has never seen — a Charles Darwin doll. Your dog may not be a genius, after all 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Decades before Charles Darwin laid out his evolutionary theory in On the Origin of Species, Lamarck and other biologists proposed their own mechanisms for evolutionary change. Cannibalistic tadpoles and matricidal worms point to a powerful new helper for evolution 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z He then adds to the array a toy she has never seen—a Charles Darwin doll. Your Dog May Not be A Genius, After All 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z He was also president from 1995 to 2000 of Britain’s venerable Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific organization, whose members have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Aaron Klug, Nobel-winning scientist who examined crystal structure, dies at 92 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The University's library is home to some of the world's most important public records, including the original work and correspondence of Charles Darwin, and the papers of Sir Isaac Newton. Spitting Image archive given to university 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “On the internet, there is often silliness,” she said while marching up the stairs toward the skeleton of a blue whale and the bust of Charles Darwin. A ‘Time Capsule’ for Scientists, Courtesy of Peter the Great 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Altogether, the items auctioned, which also included possessions of Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, were sold for more than $2.3 million. Stephen Hawking’s Wheelchair and Thesis Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The online auction, hosted by Christie’s, is called On the Shoulders of Giants and features 22 items belonging to Hawking, and also manuscripts by Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Stephen Hawking PhD thesis and wheelchair to sell in online auction 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Aside from some of Hawking's possessions being offered, possessions from other famous scientists, including Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein will be included in the auction. Stephen Hawking's prized possessions up for auction 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The items — part of a science sale that includes papers by Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein — will be on display in London for several days from Oct. Stephen Hawking wheelchair, thesis up for sale 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The items - part of a science sale that includes papers by Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein - will be on display in London for several days from Oct. AP Exclusive: Stephen Hawking wheelchair, thesis up for sale 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z One of the new snakes was named after Charles Darwin — “a no-brainer,” Thomas says — another after the Greek god of fire and the third after Thomas. Snake names honor Darwin, fire god, Louisiana professor 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z One of the new snakes was named after Charles Darwin - “a no-brainer,” Thomas says - another after the Greek god of fire and the third after Thomas. Snake names honor Darwin, fire god, Louisiana professor 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin are the great triumvirate of 19th-century thinkers whose ideas still have huge impact today. Far right, misogynist, humourless? Why Nietzsche is misunderstood 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z For resistant students, Charles Darwin offers a cautionary tale. Drawn to science 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Wash is a nineteenth-century man of science, with a résumé of travels and adventures to rival Charles Darwin’s and a harrowing past that will not leave him be. “Washington Black” Reveals the Bonds of Both Cruelty and Compassion 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The focus on fungus is new, but Kew’s astonishing collection of fungi samples goes back to the days of evolution theorist Charles Darwin and children’s author Beatrix Potter. Royal Botanic Garden seeks respect for world’s fungus 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Long before he published “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin jotted down his evolutionary ideas in pocket notebooks. Review | A challenge to Darwin’s branching view of evolution 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z From Charles Darwin beard envy to Drake’s opinions on handling rare books, this is the procrastination aid we’ve been waiting for. Thursday briefing: Mental exercises to become a better presenter 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z And as he got older, ever more pugnacious, he harbored an increasing disdain for Charles Darwin, distinct from but alongside his disdain for molecular biology. The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin was the first to recognize that marine mammals evolved from ancestors on land. Marine Mammals Have Lost a Gene That Now They May Desperately Need 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In one of the most shocking chapters, Saini relays a letter written by Charles Darwin in which he argues that women are intellectually inferior to men. The book that fights sexism with science 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Hewitt, a self-described naturalist who grew up near the English village where Charles Darwin lived, made her discovery last month in front of a massive apartment building in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Green Big Apple: New Yorkers document the city’s plants 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z This is the so-called “survival of the fittest,” long ascribed to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace as the centerpiece to the theory of evolution. Captain America on Mars 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z This self-domestication hypothesis, which got its start with Charles Darwin, says that when early humans started to prefer cooperative friends and mates to aggressive ones, they essentially domesticated themselves. Can these birds explain how language first evolved? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin called it the ‘great Tree of Life’. The band of biologists who redrew the tree of life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The witty, exquisitely illustrated book Unnatural Selection pays homage to Charles Darwin’s The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication on its 150th anniversary. What’s bred in the bone: the dazzling traits of domesticated animals 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z This is surprising, given the long-standing puzzle of how coral reefs thrive in nutrient-poor waters — a phenomenon commonly called Darwin’s paradox because Charles Darwin highlighted this enigma. How rats wreak havoc on coral reefs 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In October 1832 a young naturalist named Charles Darwin watched with delight as hundreds of tiny spiders dangling from short silk threads floated on to HMS Beagle as the ship made for Buenos Aires. Research sheds light on mystery of how spiders 'take flight' 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z His ashes are buried near the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton in the Abbey. Astronauts, atmospheres and axolotls — June’s best science images 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Unesco urged Belize to put safeguards in place to protect what Charles Darwin described as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies". Belize reef taken off 'in danger' list 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z When floating spiders boarded the HMS Beagle in 1832, naturalist Charles Darwin wrote in his journal: “I caught some of the Aeronaut spiders which must have come at least 60 miles.” Spiders can float in the air, and scientists just figured out how they lift off 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Peck had also collected a first edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.” Librarian speaks for 1st time about heist movie, her ordeal 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “We also took an immediate decision in 1882 about Charles Darwin.” Stephen Hawking Enters ‘Britain’s Valhalla,’ Where Space Is Tight 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Hawking’s ashes were buried between the graves of fellow scientists, Sir Charles Darwin and Sir Issac Newton. Ashes of Stephen Hawking buried at Westminster between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z During the ceremony his ashes will be buried alongside other great scientists like Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. Hawking memorial service to be held 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z This should not seem surprising since, as Charles Darwin recognized, life is graded on a curve. Would a Single-Payer System Require Painful Sacrifices From Doctors? 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The firm is what Charles Darwin might call a perfect adaptation. Xiaomi’s forthcoming IPO shows how the rules of business are changing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “Within a month, he was dining with Sir Walter Scott and Charles Darwin.” The $8 million Audubon book about birds, and the amazing story behind it 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z His ashes will be buried at @wabbey between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, two other giants of Cambridge science. Ashes of Stephen Hawking buried at Westminster between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z This socio-economically diverse group, formed in part to promote Charles Darwin’s achievements, is a telling case study in the dynamics of Victorian class and science. The triumph of random testing, a quest for ancient wine, and a history of mirages: Books in brief 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The professor's ashes are to be interred between Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Hawking thanksgiving service ballot closes 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Some of the best include a marriage certificate dated 18 October 1899, found in an 1850 copy of the Bible, and a recipe for cheese souffle, found in Charles Darwin: Evolution and Natural Selection. Bacon, cheese slices and sawblades: the strangest bookmarks left at libraries 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin read it as a young man and made a pilgrimage to Selborne. Fourth most published book in English language to go online 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z During the service, the scientist's ashes will be interred between Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Stephen Hawking service ballot opens 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Hawking’s ashes are to be interred June 15 at the London church between the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Hawking’s family offers lottery for Westminster tickets 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z That whole biological evolution thing that Charles Darwin figured out quite often makes people ignore the fact he was a first-rate geologist as well. Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Evolution of Basalt 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z From Florence Nightingale to Charles Darwin, and from Lenin to Cromwell, academics have pored over the historical accounts to scrutinise treatments and in some cases offer up a cause of death. What killed history's most famous people? Medical sleuths gather to investigate 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z A book that influenced Charles Darwin and is reputedly the fourth most published work in the English language is to be made available online. Fourth most published book in English language to go online 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The famous naturalist Charles Darwin read about the fossil and said the work on "old birds" afforded support for the theory of evolution. How birds got their beaks 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Fossils like those of Ichthyornis and Cretaceous toothed diving bird Hesperornis were cited by 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin as strong support for his theory of evolution. Ancient bird with beak and teeth blended dinosaur, avian traits 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z In 1880, Charles Darwin wrote that Ichthyornis was among "the best support for the theory of evolution" since On the Origin of Species was published 2 decades earlier. Fossils reveal how ancient birds got their beaks 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Several bore the faded handwriting of Alfred Russel Wallace, the eminent British naturalist who was a contemporary of Charles Darwin. How an Obsession With Rare Bird Feathers Turned Criminal 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Finally, by constantly railing against pernicious “Darwinism,” the advocate can map the many personal faults and flaws of Charles Darwin and his like-minded contemporaries onto evolution itself. On "Darwinism" 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “You have to go back about 50 million years to find a closely related species,” said Marilyn Connell, a researcher at Australia’s Charles Darwin University. Australia's 'punk turtle' risks being last of the Mohicans 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In his book Coral Reefs of The World, Charles Darwin called Belize home to “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies.” How One Country Is Restoring Its Damaged Ocean 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Hawking’s ashes will be interred at Westminster Abbey in June, among some of the greatest scientists in history, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Friends, family, public flock to funeral of physicist Stephen Hawking 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z That accolade given to Charles Darwin by the captain of the HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, propelled the fledgling scientist on the ride of his life. The laws of the cosmos, solar-power challenges and Darwin’s contribution to geology: Books in brief 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The bones, discovered two years after Charles Darwin published his “On the Origin of Species,” revealed a path to modern birds from their prehistoric ancestors. This feathery dinosaur probably flew, but not like any bird you know 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Nearly 100 years earlier, Charles Darwin dubbed this suite of traits “domestication syndrome.” ‘Self-domesticating’ mice suggest some animals tamed themselves without human intervention 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Winston Churchill was named No. 1, earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes and besting figures like William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Charles Darwin. How the English view Winston Churchill, the brilliant, brave and flawed hero in Oscar-nominated 'Darkest Hour' 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Eventually, this process allows a trained algorithm to analyse a new image and correctly identify it as, for example, Charles Darwin or a diseased cell. Deep learning for biology 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The deadline to spend or exchange old £10 notes - featuring naturalist Charles Darwin - is 1 March. March deadline to return old £10 notes 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z “Almost nothing is known about them,” said Pelayo Salinas de Léon, a marine biologist at the Charles Darwin Foundation. Rare deep-sea creatures may use underwater chimneys to keep their eggs warm 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It all goes back to Charles Darwin’s finches. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The most recent national curriculum, announced in July, excluded Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from science lessons. Special Report: With more Islamic schooling, Erdogan aims to reshape T 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z This posits that strong theories emerge from the synthesis of multiple lines of evidence, as when Charles Darwin proposed evolution by natural selection. Robust research needs many lines of evidence 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The evolution of flowering plants would later trouble Charles Darwin, who famously called the rapid expansion of such a vast range of flower shapes, colours and pollination strategies an “abominable mystery”. The lost art of looking at plants 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 160 years ago, arguing that all species, including humans, evolved over time through a process of natural selection. Indian education minister dismisses theory of evolution 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin himself called it an "abominable mystery", fearing this apparent sudden leap might challenge his theory of evolution. How flowering plants conquered the world 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The most recent national curriculum, announced in July, excluded Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from science lessons. Special Report: With more Islamic schooling, Erdogan aims to reshape T 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin believed that speciation probably took place over hundreds if not thousands of generations, advancing far too gradually to be detected directly. When two different types of birds mated, a new species, Big Bird, was born 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z A young Charles Darwin brought a copy of it with him on the HMS Beagle and read it before he reached his first destination. Review | When the earth’s story defies religious belief 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z I’ve been an evolutionary biologist for nearly half a century and have read hundreds of books about Charles Darwin and his science. Review | An attack on evolution, disguised as a Darwin biography 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The archipelago is sometimes known as the Galapagos of North America, in reference to the volcanic Ecuadorean islands whose abundance of endemic species inspired biologist Charles Darwin. Mexico creates marine reserve around islands called 'Galapagos of North America' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The group of finch species to which the Big Bird population belongs are collectively known as Darwin's finches and helped Charles Darwin to uncover the process of evolution by natural selection. Bird caught in act of becoming new species 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z That certainly captures the sentiments of religious groups and like-minded politicians who believe Charles Darwin was talking through his hat and there is no way that humans are descended from lower animals. Questioning Evolution: The Push to Change Science Class 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Putting new findings in books — as Charles Darwin had famously done — was “out of place and even dangerous”8. The catalogue that made metrics, and changed science 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Wilson doesn’t identify with — “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker” is by far the worst. Review | An attack on evolution, disguised as a Darwin biography 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The archipelago is sometimes known as the Galapagos of North America, in reference to the volcanic Ecuadorean islands whose abundance of endemic species inspired biologist Charles Darwin. Mexico creates marine reserve around islands called 'Galapagos of North America' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z In 2004 the national park service and the Charles Darwin Foundation initiated a more systematic campaign to eradicate goats from the northern, uninhabited part of Isabela, the largest island in the archipelago. Could Genetic Engineering Save the Galápagos? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin went on two walks daily: one at noon and one at 4 p.m. 6 Ways to Invest Your Time Like a World-Class Leader 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The researchers were able to pick out the mutations that were driving the growth of cancer by turning to Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory. 'Handful of changes' make cancer 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt are quoted and Charles Darwin gets a mention. Inside the sprawling, controversial $500m Museum of the Bible 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes, curiosity pulls us towards big, abstract questions about the workings of nature — Isaac Newton on gravitation, or Charles Darwin on evolution. Neuroscience: The mother lode of invention : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin would not have published his ideas of evolution by natural selection when he did, had he not been prompted into it by the similar thoughts of Alfred Russel Wallace. Discoveries have awkward first dates 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin helped plant the seeds of the grain glut. Special Report: Drowning in grain - How Big Ag sowed seeds of a profit-slashing glut 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z When high school students in Turkey arrive for the fall term, Charles Darwin will be conspicuously absent from biology classes. In Turkey’s New Curriculum, Ataturk, Darwin and Jihad Get Face-Lifts 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Next fall, evolution and Charles Darwin will be scrapped from their textbooks. Uproar in Turkey over removing evolution from biology class 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z It replaces the paper £10 note, with the portrait of naturalist Charles Darwin, which will still be accepted in the shops until Spring 2018. Jane Austen £10 note enters circulation 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z She is replacing Charles Darwin on the £10 note. Recovery From Two Hurricanes, and German Automakers Look Forward 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin helped plant the seeds of the grain glut. Special Report: Drowning in grain - How Big Ag sowed seeds of a profit-slashing glut 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z But the restless McEwan craved a closer alternative for exercise and contemplation, and found inspiration at Down House, the former home of Charles Darwin in Kent. Ian McEwan’s Enchanted Garden 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z “The Essex Serpent” features gorgeous nature writing and engaging themes, notably the struggle of the educated classes to reconcile their Church of England faith with the notions of that rapscallion Charles Darwin. Four new novels take us to another time and place 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The young Charles Darwin would grow up with White’s Antiquities of Selborne at his side – as a guide, philosopher and friend. 100 best nonfiction books: No 80 - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White (1789) 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Only five weeks after the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, Thoreau was applying evolutionary principles to his own study. Henry David Thoreau, a new biography 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin realised, when looking at the finches of the Galapagos, that as island populations go their separate ways, new species spring up. The coming sixth extinction 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin himself wrung his hands over how flowering plants exploded in diversity early in their evolution. The world’s first flower may have looked like this 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Historians prefer 1859: Charles Darwin published his “On the Origin of Species”, the Liberal Party was founded, and Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot and Mill all produced major works. London’s hot and busy summer of 1858 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Shortly after becoming the Bank of England governor in 2013, Mr. Carney announced that Ms. Austen would replace Charles Darwin on the £10 note. U.K.’s New £10 Note Gets a Fresh Face: Jane Austen 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z And Charles Darwin, beset by family crises, received a famous letter from field biologist Alfred Russel Wallace that jolted him into finalizing his theory of natural selection. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z In his new comment on Fitch and colleagues' paper, Lieberman cited Charles Darwin, who reflected on the perilous position of our trachea in 1859: Food has to pass over our windpipe. Why can’t monkeys talk? Scientists rumble over a curious question. 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Churchill was voted in 2002 as the greatest Briton of all time, surpassing Shakespeare, Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. Winston Churchill was larger than life and a perfect character for movies and TV 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z When Charles Darwin first found its fossils in southern Patagonia during his Beagle voyage, he was baffled. Strange Mammals That Stumped Darwin Finally Find a Home 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z What exactly this creature was puzzled scientists, including the father of evolution, Charles Darwin. This bizarre ancient creature mystified Darwin. Now we finally know what it was. 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Top British scientists – from Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, to the physicist Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin – were concerned that while British science was world-class, its publishing arm was dismal. Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z On the first sunny day of 1838, Charles Darwin decided to take a break from his studies. What Charles Darwin Saw at the Zoo 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin made Victorians splutter into their tea when he wrote The Descent of Man, subtitled “selection in relation to sex.” Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Just over three-quarters of a century ago, Charles Darwin published a book titled “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits.” Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Charles Darwin walked outdoors to stimulate their mental processes. Getting back to a place ‘where birds fly around uncooked’ 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z After Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, he got a fan letter from his cousin Francis Galton. Opinion | What are our genes really telling us? The answer is far from clear 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin called it “the taste for the beautiful”. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z For Charles Darwin, our atrophied sense of smell was a mark of evolutionary advancement beyond our ape ancestors. Don’t be sniffy if you smell like a dog 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z “Man smells poorly,” Aristotle wrote, while Charles Darwin concluded that a sense of smell was of “extremely slight service” to the civilised human. Not to be sniffed at: human sense of smell rivals that of dogs, says study 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin was right to laud the earthworm. Soil: Restore earthworms to rebuild topsoil : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin knew microbes as “infusoria”, and left them off his partial tree of life — little dreaming of how they dominate it, or of their intimate relationship with humanity. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z It smells lovely down there, and Charles Darwin would approve. She started composting. Who knew red wigglers and worm poop were so interesting? 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “Reality check: Charles Darwin didn’t publish his theory of evolution in The Origin of Species until 1859, more than half a century after the founding fathers were active.” First fake news, now fake history: Glenn Beck wants to train an army of young people to promote an alternative history 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Just as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is drafted to explain politics and business, Dr. Wing argued for broad use of computer ideas. Learning to Think Like a Computer 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The writer Jane Austen’s image will be on the new polymer £10 note, replacing that of Charles Darwin. Millicent Fawcett Is First Woman to Get Statue in London’s Parliament Square 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Among those who dined on giant tortoise flesh: Charles Darwin. Meet Diego, the Centenarian Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The technology is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, the British naturalist who was a contemporary of Charles Darwin. A Brand Name for a Hedge Fund Happy Hour: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z After about 150,000 years of human evolution, shyness must surely be a resilient quality — an “odd state of mind,” as Charles Darwin called it, caused by our strange capacity for “self-attention.” Is that smartphone making your teenager’s shyness worse? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Published in England barely a month before, Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was sent by the author himself to Asa Gray, a Harvard botanist who would become one of Darwin’s staunchest defenders. Opinion | Did Darwin’s theory of evolution encourage abolition of slavery? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Written in 2010 for an opera about Charles Darwin by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma, Colouring Of Pigeons strikes the perfect balance between The Knife’s pop sensibilities and their experimental urges. These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z A kind of memorial ceremony was underway around dusk at the Charles Darwin center, attended by national park guards, air force officers and police officers. Meet Diego, the Centenarian Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z In his 1875 book Insectivorous Plants, Charles Darwin included detailed drawings of the tentacles that sundews use to pin insects to their leaves. How plants evolved into carnivores 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin described the flytrap as “one of the most wonderful plants in the world.” Venus Flytraps Need Protection From Poachers in North Carolina 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z He never met Charles Darwin, and Darwin never read his paper on pea-plant hybridization. Arts: Hot tickets 2017 : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Ever the scientist, Merkel understands the idea, often attributed to Charles Darwin, that it’s not the strongest or smartest who survive—it’s those most capable of adapting to their environment. What 5 Political Promises Say About the State of the World 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z As he stood marvelling at the iguanas, birds and sheer diversity of the place that had inspired Charles Darwin, Esvelt vowed to understand evolution — and improve on it. Nature’s 10 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z By the late 1850s, Charles Darwin had already shattered the notion that human beings could control how they develop – let alone build a rational society. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin published the idea of a tree of life in On the Origin of Species in 1859. Phylogeny: 'Tree of life' took root 150 years ago : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Charles Darwin could not believe that a kindly God would create a parasitic wasp that injects its eggs into the body of a caterpillar so that the larva may consume the host alive. Ian McEwan: Trump's poetry was hatred. What about the prose? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z As the researchers themselves note in their paper, Charles Darwin once observed, “the mind must be in a pleasurable condition” to respond to tickling with laughter. Rats Can Laugh—Provided You're Willing to Tickle Them 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Is art simply a preening display to attract mates and carry out the biological imperatives identified by Charles Darwin? God, sex or evolution – why did humans start making art? 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The likes of Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace began to make sense of the astounding variety of animal life. Zoology: Animal crackers : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z |
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