In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution, especially in the general ...

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David Attenborough’s natural history series. In this documentary ...

In his first notebook on the subject, Darwin sketches out a branch on what he envisions as the "tree of life." He imagines an enormous tree, encompassing all of life on Earth, past and present.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us ... The young Charles had a quietly Christian upbringing, but his family life was one of openness to new ideas.

My research interests lie in the taxonomy and evolution of parasitoid wasps, so I’m particularly keen to see genomes ... I upload these barcodes and their specimen records to the Barcode of Life ...

Our Library has 478 editions of On the Origin of Species in 38 languages and in Braille. Charles Darwin used the concept of a tree of life in the context of the theory of evolution to illustrate that ...

This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the one-hundred ... The only illustration in On the Origin of Species is a tree of life, which he used to explain ...

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin's “Tree of Life” sketch is seen on a page of ... Darwin-s notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous “Tree of Life” sketch are missing, believed ...

“Evolution isn't just a story ... extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree. To help you explore this tree and understand ...

You can thank evolution for the diversity of life, from microscopic bacteria to the blue whale, the biggest animal to ever live. Darwin and fellow ... while a tree in the Amazon rainforest needs ...