Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species is best known for explaining evolution by natural selection, but it also offers a broader life lesson through the line, “The shield may be as important for ...

The first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species laid out the case for evolution by natural selection with nearly 500 pages of dense prose and a single diagram. Now, writer Michael ...

Managing Director, Canter Wealth, a fee-only wealth management firm born out of the need for integration within the financial industry. You often hear the phrase “survival of the fittest” as the key ...

Part I. Selection: Darwin and natural selection -- The group selection controversy -- For whose good does natural selection work? -- Part II. Adaptation: Darwin (and others) on biological perfection - ...

Early in January, Darwin gives a group of poorly labeled birds collected in the Galapagos to John Gould at London's Zoological Society. Gould is one of several renowned naturalists eager to look at ...

Design — what biologists call 'adaptation' — is an obvious feature of life. People have probably been thinking about it for as long as they have been thinking about anything. Classically, it provided ...

Charles is in Edinburgh, Scotland, ostensibly to study medicine. This is an age of heroic surgery, before anesthetics. Brutal operations are performed quickly, with screaming patients strapped to ...