In November 1859, Charles Darwin published his seminal book on the Origin of Species. His studies caused a pivotal change in how we view ourselves just as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) and Galileo ...

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Got a spare million or two lying around? Then maybe you’ll want to drop by Christie’s auction house and pick up an original copy of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. Need I say it? Holy ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the mid-1500’s Copernicus developed the modern version of heliocentrism, the idea ...

I received an email from a reader the other day after all the NASA blather that happened last week. He is an evolutionary biologist, so of course he feels my pain. He sent me a link to a page about ...