It’s one of the greatest stories in science, right up there with Neil Armstrong’s small step on the moon and Jane Goodall’s overhaul of ideas on non-human relationships. When naturalist Charles Darwin ...

The Galapagos Islands, a remote archipelago off the coast of Ecuador, may be the birthplace of our scientific understanding of evolution. Charles Darwin, who put the Galapagos on the map, pointed to ...

The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle ...

THE theories of Darwin, and particularly those propounded in the “Origin of Species”, are subjects of evergreen interest both to laymen and to biologists, and it is constantly worth while to examine ...

Simón Bolívar, the hero of the Latin American wars of independence, dreamed of South America becoming a single great power.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – November 24 marks a seldom-celebrated, but very important landmark: Evolution Day. GOTHENBURG, Sweden – November 24 marks a seldom-celebrated, but very important landmark: ...

A small group from RIT left today for the Galapagos Islands. Eighteen students, faculty and staff, including two supporting sign language interpreters, will study variations in the island ecology made ...

Professor Emeritus Eviatar Nevo, the founder and director of the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa in Israel, knows a thing or two about evolutionary biology, as his thousands of ...

Am I a climate denier in my inattention to the natural world around me? Do I need to learn to really look and see the beauty and richness of what is imperiled as I rush through my busy, everyday life, ...