On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

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Tucker Carlson rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. During a discussion on AI, in which Carlson called the technology a threat to ...

It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the father ...

Headlines about evolution can give you whiplash. “Was Darwin Wrong?” teased a cover of National Geographic in 2004. But turn the page and you’re conked over the head: “NO. The evidence for Evolution ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...

The Galápagos Islands, a remote volcanic archipelago, located about 1,000 kilometers west of Ecuador, is probably one of the most unique places on Earth. In the scientific world, this archipelago is ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Is evolution a gradual process or a punctuated one, ...