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 ...

When John Scopes, a U.S. schoolteacher in the state of Tennessee, was charged and convicted of violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of Darwin's theory in 1925, it was the anti-evolution ...

In the book, Darwin set out his theory of evolution, based on his years of research and what he had seen when travelling across the globe on the Beagle. Darwin recognised that his theory could ...

Now, the Church of England and society at large no longer see evolution as anathema to faith. Darwin himself stressed that evolution and religion were not incompatible. He pointed to his dear ...