Charles Darwin

“Where was Darwin in Galápagos and what did he see? When Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos Islands for 5 weeks (15 September -20 October) in 1835, he did not leave an obvious account of where he landed on each ...  

Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, a new book from ASM Press, Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw celebrates Charles Darwin and his landmark publication On the Origin of Species. The editors compiled 40 first-person essays, written by microbiologists with a passion for evolutionary biology, to illuminate how each scientist's thinking and career paths in science were...  

One of Charles Darwin's last experiments - which seems more like a trick the evolutionist enjoyed playing on his dinner guests - has been re-born for the digital age. The pioneer of evolution owned a collection of photographs showing a French man having ...  

Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, said he was astonished that such attitudes exist 150 years after On The Origin of Species was published. "That's what we're up against. In 2009. It's amazing," he said. "The film has no distributor in America.  

Darwin was fascinated by the photos taken by French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne, who referred to facial expressions as the 'gymnastics of the soul'. He asked his guests to decide the best word to describe each picture, and then filtered through the ...  

Charles Darwin’s contributions to evolutionary theory are legendary and foundational. After all, where would we be without Origin of Species or The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex? How could we live without those works on coral atolls, domesticated animals or barnacles?read more  

Charles Darwin, portrayed by Dr. Stanley Rice, talks about spring wildflowers in this video. This video was released on April 22, 2012. Rice was born in Cushing, Oklahoma, and is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Southeastern Oklahoma State ...  

In the UK, they released an exciting new movie a while back, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. I have the book. It’s marvelous: it prominently features pirates, beards, scientists, and Charles Darwin, and is exactly the kind of story I like. The good news! It’s just been released in the US. The peculiar [...]...  

The Charles Darwin squad were:Nathalie Green, Sam Harding, Kate Welch, Karis Matthews, Becky Scrivener, Mia Constantinou, Darcy Wells, Frankie Muir, Liana Khan, Jade Gregory, Charlie McCabe, Katie MacMahon, Ellie Griffin and Kaitlin Shulver.  

Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of "ghoulish" photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describe the emotion displayed in each photo. Now scientists are recreating the experiment.  

Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends?for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of "ghoulish" photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describe the emotion displayed in each photo. Now scientists are recreating the experiment.  

TERRITORIANS may soon be swapping "g'day" for "ni hao ma". A Confucius Institute Chinese language and culture centre is to open at Charles Darwin University. The Beijing government will provide specially trained language teachers. Charles Darwin's Monica ...  

Volume 19 of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, published today, is making the short but intensely revealing personal journal of Darwin's daughter, Henrietta, public for the first time. Written over the period March to July 1871, the year of the 28-old Henrietta's sudden marriage to a man she had known for less than three months, the journal introduces a confident, intelligent, reflective, and passionate young woman. To anyone who has only...  

One of the coolest sites on the internet is Tulane University's Louisiana Research Collection of Mardi Gras costume and float designs. Here, thousands upon thousands of pieces of concept art detail parade pageantry dating back to the mid-1800s. In the ...  

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who is known as the co-discoverer, along with Alfred Russel Wallace, of the theory of evolution. His ideas about evolution also have made a deep impact upon economic theoryCharles Darwin was an English naturalist who is known as the co-discoverer, along with Alfred Russel Wallace, of the Theory of Evolution, which is the unifying theory of all life sciences. Darwin's ideas about evolution also are...  

Our Critic at large this week is writer and novelist Rebecca Stott, whose new book, Darwin’s Ghosts, follows Charles Darwin’s attempts to pay his respects to his intellectual forebears following the publication in 1859 of Origin of Species. Darwin ...  

It's always amusing to see creationists try to explain why Charles Darwin was wrong, especially when they make up lists of reasons "Darwin's theory of evolution does not hold up to scientific scrutiny." These are always people who wouldn't know what scientific scrutiny was if it knocked them immobile with a carefully measured dose of Conus snail toxin, strapped them to an operating table, and pumped high-intensity Science directly into their...  

Published for the first time as an appendix to The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 19, the diary was written as Henrietta became engaged to barrister Richard Buckley Litchfield and prepared to leave the family home. It helps paint a picture of ...  

CrashCourse Biology #18 Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation.  

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures, 1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a mystery until Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea of natural selection, which he showed could help explain the gradual...  

The campaign has won the backing of wildlife presenter Sir David Attenborough. The group has received donations from within the county but also from as far afield as London and America as it continues to push for funding. The money will be used ...  

He was born in Cushing, Oklahoma. He is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. Dr. Rice earned his Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an author ...  

"Project Noah is what would have happened if Charles Darwin had created Foursquare," says co-founder Yasser Ansari.  

Can I get a witness? Internet porn is changing who we are and I don't mean in a good way. Charles Darwin could never have predicted how our species might devolve. Imagine the purest look of horror on Darwin's face upon learning that the next ...  

Charles Darwin's brilliant deductions about fossil and live animal discoveries on travels aboard the HMS Beagle, in the remote Galápagos Islands west of Ecuador, remain some of the great achievements in the history of science. His book "On the Origin of ...  

Erasmus (Dec. 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802) was a prominent English physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, naturalist and the grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin and the biologist Francis Galton. Erasmus Darwin was one of the leading intellectuals of 18th century England.As a naturalist, he formulated one of the first formal theories on evolution in Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-1796). Although he did not come up with natural...  

ATLANTA, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an egregious example of academic bullying, renowned neurosurgeon and director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital Dr. Ben Carson has been publicly chastised for his views on evolution and called...  

IT FEELS LIKE it took fish less time to grow legs and walk on land than it took for President Obama’s position on gay marriage to finally “evolve” to supporting it. Leave it to the ever-cautious “No Drama Obama” to take an epic moment in the slow forward march of civil rights for all Americans and to leave supporters to wonder if they should be shouting, “You’ve come a long way, baby!” or asking the president, “Jeez, what took you so long?”  

The sky is falling! Many interest groups and journalists raced to tell that to the public when a modest but important bill became law in Tennessee early in April. The law instructs teachers and administrators to "create an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and...  

April 19, 2012 1:21 AM[SYDNEY] Near the site where the first bomb landed on Australia in World War II, Il Lido restaurant serves watermelon cubes with aged balsamic vinegar at A$3 (S$4) each to diners overlooking a swimming lagoon and artificial wave pool.  

This summer, the Museum of Design Atlanta will exhibit Skate It or Hang It!? The Evolution of Skateboard Art, featuring skateboard art dating from the 1970s to today.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study published in Molecular Ecology strongly supports the first "many-small" hypothesis.  

I wrote a book that came out in early 2009 called, “The Progressive Revolution: How The Best In America Came To Be,” that talked about the history of the American political debate. One of my fundamental arguments was that conservatives are using the same arguments against modern day progress that their ideological ancestors used against the progress we made throughout history. What I underestimated, though, is how fiercely and broadly the...  

A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study strongly supports the first "many-small" hypothesis.  

In his search for ships filled with booty, the Pirate Captain accidentally sacks the HMS Beagle, the famous research ship of naturalist Charles Darwin (David Tennant), leading to a more landlocked, and delightfully ludicrous, adventure. When Darwin learns ...  

Unlike most other Darwin Day celebrations, the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association holds its annual Darwin Day lecture series around the date of Charles Darwin's death (April 19, 1882), rather than his birth (Feb. 12, 1809).  This year's lectures ...  

The original bill, which Mr Dunn sponsored and which passed Tennessee's House last year, said that "the teaching of some scientific subjects ... Photograph of Charles Darwin taken by Leonard Darwin; God from Creation of the Sun and Moon by Michelangelo)  

Charles Darwin would surely have been mesmerized by a paper ... what’s a real word is fundamentally human,” said Duke University neurobiologist Michael Platt, who wrote a commentary accompanying the paper in the journal Science. Before Darwin went ...  

Researchers pursuing this quest have found an invaluable, if unlikely, ally: Charles Darwin. Although evolutionary theory forms the cornerstone of biology, it has only recently been exploited as a rich source of clinical insight into the causes ...  

Tickets for event were free but limited, drawing over 800 students and locals.  

Although it is undoubtedly funny—and blasphemous—when Thomas Huxley utters lines like “It just makes my balls go hard,” and Charles Darwin discusses the taste of Dr. Pepper, the play examines humanity: what drives us to love, and how we are ...  

Gillian Beer is gripped by a study of the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin  

Gillian Beer is gripped by a study of the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin  

The second of two new books on evolution I posted about in last week’s Book Notes, Christianity in Evolution: An Exploration is quite a departure from previous attempts to reconcile Darwinian theory with Christianity. Jack Mahoney, a professor ...  

Researchers who studied people in Finland found human evolution is still going on. Their conclusions contradict the popular misconception that humans stopped evolving when they took up farming and became monogamous.  

Connor Wood wrote a piece at Science on Religion about why some people have an antipathy towards the theory of evolution. Leah at Unequally Yoked responds with a post, “Scared of Darwin for All the Wrong Reasons.” I should probably respond to the content of the posts. I might do so later. Right now, I’m [...]  

I don't think believing that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural ... At the time of Darwin himself, his great defender Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather of the novelist Aldous Huxley) set out consciously to make of Darwinism a phenomenon ...  

Over at Patheos’s group blog on science and religion, Connor Wood is trying to explain why people have a visceral discomfort with evolution.  He sees natural selection as the ultimate example of “nature red in tooth and claw” — a rigged game that ...  

'Pirates! Band of Misfits' Director Peter Lord, On Defending Darwin and ...MoviefoneOur Darwin, his mission in life is getting a girl. He's more interested in getting a girl than anything else. He doesn't know the first idea about evolution, [although] the Captain gives him a couple of hints. There's always talk about, ...and more »  

Darwinian 'survival-of-the-fittest' laws continue to shape human evolution in the modern age, research has found. Humans are subject to the forces of natural selection just like any other species, say scientists. Human customs such as marriage have not ...  

In his April 15 letter to The News and Sentinel, William Taylor ("God vs. NPR") stated "the so-called theory of evolution isn't even a viable scientific theory" - despite the fact that thousands of accomplished scientists have proved its validity during ...  

You can drive 45km south of Darwin on the Stuart Highway to see the Strauss Airstrip which was used extensively by the US, Britain and Australia during the war. Darwin Day Tours has a half-day package visiting sites of bombing attacks including in Charles ...  

Many potential predators and competitors had not reached the island at this time. This allowed the vangas to quickly occupy ecological niches, diversify and spread across the island. "This first bout of rapid diversification resulted in vanga species which ...  

Darwin manages the Garden & Gun team, and has helped secure a 134 percent YOY increase in ad revenue. “When I started the magazine I was determined that we would have the best team that we could here in Charleston and produce the same kind, or even ...  

I wrote a book that came out in early 2009 called, The Progressive Revolution: How The Best In America Came To Be, that talked about the history of the American political debate. One of my fundamental arguments was that conservatives are using the same ...  

The work, published in the journal Molecular Ecology, involved McGill University biology professor Andrew Hendry and evolutionary geneticists from Basel University in Switzerland. They examined threespine stickleback fish and their adaptation to ...  

There is a famous image from Darwin's thoughts. He likened evolution to a dirt floor filled with wooden wedges hammered into them. New species were new wedges hammered into a crowded floor, crowding out old wedge-species. The crowding captured ...  

In the recently published "Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution", Phys.org conveys a common understanding of our human origins. In a generally reputed sharp contrast, Church hierarchies advocate "Creationism" as ...  

The great great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin has unveiled a blue plaque at the place where he spent his holidays in Ramsgate, Kent.  

The diary of Henrietta Darwin – daughter of Charles – shows that she constructively edited some of her father's most famous works  

How does Darwin explain the swim bladder?