There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote a short paper about a tiny clam found clamped to the leg of a ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England in 1809. In 1825 he went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. His experience at university provided him with a wide scientific education.

“The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor,” according to Understanding Evolution, a joint project of the University of California Museum of ...

Tucker Carlson has been mocked by experts after suggesting that Darwin's theory of evolution has been debunked. The broadcaster made the comments on the Joe Rogan podcast where he also claimed ...

The British naturalist was the first to offer evidence to explain the mechanism that makes evolution possible: natural selection. And so he became one of the most important thinkers and scientists ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best ...