The complete online text of Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin.

Charles Robert Darwin is credited with popularizing the concept of organic evolution by means of natural selection. Though Darwin was not the first naturalist to propose a model of biological evolution, his introduction of the mechanism of the "survival...

Charles Robert Darwin is credited with popularizing the concept of organic evolution by means of natural selection. Though Darwin was not the first naturalist to propose a model of biological evolution, his introduction of the mechanism of the "survival...

One of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century, Darwin is best known for establishing the theory of organic evolution by natural selection. Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, the son of a respected physician. He was the grandson of...

PLANTS are supposed to be at the beginning of the food chain-the eaten not the eaters. Vegetables that defy this tendency, snacking on animals instead of being snacked on by them, have long aroused morbid fascination-not least among writers such as H.G. Wells...

Insectivorous plants benefit from trapped, dead insects as a source of nutrients. On the other hand, most insectivorous plants depend on free-moving, live insects as pollen vectors for sexual reproduction. In Pinguicula vallisneriifolia Webb, the spatial and temporal coincidence between flowers and the first...