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 ...

Jenyns never takes up the offer to read a draft of Darwin's theory. Around this time, anonymously, the journalist Robert Chambers publishes a book speculating on evolution. It sells well ...

Today, less than a century after the publication of The Origin of Species, the theory of evolution has long been accepted as a fact of life. The brilliance of Darwin's insight lay in his ...