Darwin's 'one special difficulty': celebrating Darwin 200.

Darwin would have loved DNA: celebrating Darwin 200.

Analysis of DNA sequences now plays a key role in evolutionary biology research. If Darwin were to come back today, I think he would be absolutely delighted with molecular evolutionary genetics, for three reasons. First, it solved one of the greatest problems for his theory of evolution by natural selection. Second, it gives us a tool that can be used to investigate many of the questions he fou...

Darwin anniversaries come home

It was an event one hundred years ago: the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth was marked widely, no more so than by one of Germany's most famous biologists, Ernst Haeckel. He delivered an address at the University of Jena celebrating Darwin as one of the last events before he retired. Another century on and many institutions worldwide have celebrations under way this year to mark 200 years sin...

Darwin's continental drift

Lisbon is grandly celebrating the Darwin anniversaries, but to the east in Turkey things are different.

Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution in the Galapagos Islands and the Great Plains

Bacterial and Mycotic Infections of Man

The first published expression of the theory of evolution by natural selection was printed July 1, 1858, in the Journal of the Linnaean Society of London in the form of two essays: one by Charles Darwin and one by Alfred Russel Wallace. These two essays, along with Darwin's preliminary Sketch of 1842 and his Essay of 1844 (neither of which were published until 1909), and a foreword by Sir Gavin...