Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” has been voted the most influential academic book in history in an online poll. Darwin’s book, which founded evolutionary biology when it was ...

The first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species laid out the case for evolution by natural selection with nearly 500 pages of dense prose and a single diagram. Now, writer Michael ...

Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” is known today as the foundational text of the theory of evolution. Support for LAist comes from Become a sponsor ...

After Charles ’ Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859, a number of presentation copies were sent to family and friends, including one to German ...

As far as I know, Charles Darwin never played in a band, but he still got famous. What many people don’t know is that he was mainly famous for his book about earthworms.

People can now part-own a first edition of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, valued at £275,000, with 5,550 shares on sale at £50 each. The father of evolution's very first edition is being ...

On the 164th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of species, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) will launch all the surviving draft pages of one of the most ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'.

His seminal work, published in 1859, changed the course of science and society. An excerpt from the concluding chapter, on the “grandeur in this view of life”.

In memory of Charles Darwin, born on this day in 1809. I had read On the Origin of Species cover to cover for that particular course. Something that quickly got broken down was some very deep ...