A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the father ...

In honor of Darwin Day Feb. 12, CU Boulder evolutionary biologist Daniel Medeiros explains what we get right and wrong about Darwinism For evolutionary biologists, the big day is imminent. No, not ...

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 ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

Edward White is affiliated with Kingston University. One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, Americans ...

In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause. By Sam Kean Sam Kean is the author of six books ...

Why, each and every year, do scientists, humanists, and scholars from all around the world pay special attention to the life and work of Darwin on his birthday—February 12, 1809? (He was born the same ...