Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection. By Edward B. Poulton, &c, Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Pp. 224. (London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company ...

In animals like the noolbenger/honey possum, females are highly promiscuous, forcing males to evolve some impressive anatomical changes. Charles Darwin's work in natural selection was pivotal to our ...

Charles Darwin collected these three mockingbird specimens during his time on the Galápagos Islands in 1835, during the voyage of HMS Beagle. Darwin thought that natural selection progressed slowly ...

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 ...

So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of ... a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin was a young man of 22 at the time, a recent ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles ... through natural selection. Darwin was ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

The following is a recount of the fall 2024 3-week study abroad trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands by student Lorna Metzger ’25. Metzger is a recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International ...

This process of natural selection was first described by Charles Darwin in 1859 in On the Origin of Species. It helps explain how the many varied species on Earth could be descended from a single ...