But Darwin also received support from prominent figures in the church, particularly the writer Rev Charles Kingsley, whose Water Babies defended evolutionary ideas.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Charles Darwin is one of the most famous scientists who ever lived, whose ideas changed history. But he didn't always seem destined for greatness. ... It was controversial, ...

We’re all thoroughly familiar with the achievements of Charles Darwin. Well, unless you grew up with a particularly ...

It was in 1859—exactly a century and a half ago—that Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species.It is perhaps the most controversial book of the past millennium, and the work that has ...

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 ...

Karl Marx once gifted a signed copy of “Das Kapital” to scientist Charles Darwin, but the book remained largely unread, providing an “amusing insight” into the dynamics between these two ...