English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin employed the term to show ... and mating opportunities. Adaptation: Natural environmental selection causes the development of organism ...

Chinese scientists have challenged over a century of Darwinian theory, demonstrating that acquired traits can influence ...

This story appears in the November 2004 issue of National Geographic magazine. Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and ... 15 closely related species of Darwin's finches. The video could be used as starter on a ...

Charles Darwin is one of the most famous and celebrated naturalists ... Natural selection says on a basic level that different mutations and adaptations cause differences in survival and reproduction ...

One of the most valuable things I heard him say went something like this: Charles Darwin didn’t say that only the strong survive. What he said was that those who survive are the ones who most ...

Their study uses one of the largest genomic datasets ever produced for animals in their natural environment, comprising nearly 4,000 Darwin’s finches. The study has revealed the genetic basis of ...

For the first time since his death in 1882, Charles Darwin’s impressive library has been virtually reassembled to reveal the multitude of books, pamphlets and journals cited and read by the ...