Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), the grandfather of Charles Darwin, achieved fame as a physician and notoriety as a popularizer of evolutionary biology in such poems as "The Botanic Garden," "Zoonomia," "The Loves of the Plants," and "The Temple of Nature."...

Charles Darwin's most famous work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859), established the scientific basis for understanding the evolution of organic life. Yet as...

The English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) discovered that natural selection was the agent for the transmutation of organisms during evolution, as did Alfred Russel Wallace independently. Darwin presented his theory in "Origin of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) discovered that natural selection was the agent for the transmutation of organisms during evolution, as did Alfred Russel Wallace independently. Darwin presented his theory in Origin of Species....