A new study traced historical shipping records and vindicated Darwin from accusations of deceit. For the past four decades, Charles Darwin had been accused of keeping the essay of fellow naturalist ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Next year, 2009, will be the big one for Charles Darwin. 200 years since his birth and ...

If you haven't had enough of Wallace and Darwin yet, head on over to the Beagle Project Blog where there is a guest post by George Beccaloni that summarizes Wallace's involvement in the events that ...

When the theory of evolution was first publicly presented — exactly 150 years ago today — it wasn't immediately recognized as a revolutionary scientific breakthrough. Rather, the course of its impact ...

The horticulturist who came up with the concept of 'evolution by natural selection' 27 years before Charles Darwin did should be more widely acknowledged for his contribution, states a new paper by a ...

Charles Robert Darwin (above) has enjoyed far more fame than Alfred Russel Wallace, but they are in fact co-discoverers of natural selection as the means of organic evolution. 1 Bettmann/Corbis __1858 ...

New evidence is casting doubt on the popular belief that Charles Darwin may have borrowed some ideas from naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace when developing his theory of evolution by natural selection.

Alfred Russel Wallace was a great admirer of Darwin and a fellow naturalist. After a variety of zoological discoveries Wallace proposed a theory of evolution, which matched Darwin's unpublished ideas ...

Welsh language TV channel S4C has been accused of airing a "biased documentary" about Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-founder of the theory of natural selection. In the programme it ...