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 ...

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 ...

Darwin finishes his Autobiography ... that it would be as difficult for them to throw off their belief in God, as for a monkey to throw off its instinctive fear and hatred of a snake.

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 ...

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 ...

Darwin put forward the theory that all life, including humans, has evolved from more primitive forms. The transformation of Jekyll to the ape-like Hyde links to this idea of a primitive nature ...

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 ...