The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Fate remains the enigma. Some chance event at the beginning of our lives keys in its plot. That this is so is the understanding of both folklore and the highest fiction. Dick Whittington’s cat, the ...

In an earlier posting, I summarized the life of Herman Melville as a model for exploring the relationship of creativity and mental illness in writers and artists. In this article, we will extend these ...

Charles Darwin had it out for the iguanas of the Galápagos Islands. When the 26-year-old naturalist encountered marine iguanas on San Cristóbal Island in 1835, he repeatedly tossed these “most ...

India, Feb. 12 -- On 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, a boy was born who would later be responsible for how humans thought about their existence. That boy was Charles Darwin, a name that ...

The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin's personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse into the ...

The Bean Life Science Museum celebrated Charles Darwin's 216th birthday with various family friendly activities on Feb. 15. “We have five options for activities, and if you do four of them, you get a ...

Charles Darwin -- arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85 per cent of its contents were unknown or ...

Charles Darwin—arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85% of its contents were unknown or unpublished.