The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under ...

He pointed to his dear friend Asa Gray, who fought to have the theory of natural selection accepted in America, as an example of "an ardent theist and an evolutionist." Yet Darwin knew that he ...

Darwin made detailed notes and collected lots ... many seemed to have changed - or adapted - to suit the local environment. Finches, for example, had different beaks on each island, and he thought ...

all of which weren't available in Darwin's time. As we report on page 11, identifying evolutionary drivers is essential if, ...

The slight variations in the beak structures of finches on the Galapagos Islands are the best-known example of the influences on Darwin's thinking on how species evolved. His ideas on 'survival of ...