Darwin wasn't the first to suggest the theory ... Here, a 1999 evolutionary tree based on DNA shows how the five great apes, including us, arose from a common ancestor. Branch length indicates ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

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 ...

He sees 12-foot-high ant nests, iridescent hummingbirds, and his first New World monkey. He collects orchids, lizards, and more. On a single day, Darwin catches 68 species of beetles. Earlier on ...

Why don't we? Somewhere around 20 million or 25 million years ago, when apes diverged from monkeys, our branch of the tree of life shed tails. From the time of Charles Darwin, scientists have ...

Apes, monkeys, all our ancestors, and so on and so forth. Apologies for anyone in Florida whose internet provider suddenly blocked the rest of this article. Darwin also had one startling new idea ...

The figure refers to the goal, set by the Paris Climate Agreement, of making sure global temperatures rise to no more than 1.5C higher than their pre-industrial level.