Darwinian theory includes the belief that all living things descended from a small number of common ancestors and that this process was guided over long periods of time by natural selection or ...

Darwin and After Darwin: an Exposition of the Darwinian Theory, and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions. By the late G. J. Romanes &c. II. Post-Darwinian Questions—Heredity and Utility.

Tucker Carlson has been mocked by experts after suggesting that Darwin's theory of evolution has been debunked. The ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

Darwin installs a mirror outside his study window so he can watch visitors approach. At his country home, Down House, he feels safe to work on his secret theory, but cannot escape his troubled ...

The US botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey published a paper in 1894 pondering whether the formulation of neo-Darwinism, the ...

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 ...

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms ...

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T his spring the University of Tennessee at Knoxville marks the centennial of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the showdown over ...

Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism, by Richard Weikart (Discovery Institute, 187 pages, $15.95) In 1909, on the 50th anniversary of the execution for ...