The first edition, in contrast, retains a freshness and directness, and represents the founding moment of the Darwinian revolution itself. An introduction by Costa provides an insightful ...

Darwin learns the art of taxidermy at ... Robert Taylor's blasphemy is notorious. He publishes his revolutionary gospel in a pamphlet called "The Devil's Pulpit." Blasphemy is a crime in England.

Darwin is lying on a forest floor in Valdivia, on the coast of Chile, when suddenly he feels the earth move beneath him. "It ... lasted two minutes (but appeared much longer). The rocking was most ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best ...

demurely wedged between her noisier and more noticeable sisters – the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century (which saw the birth of modern science), and the Darwinian Revolution of the ...

Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection. The phrasing reflects his incomparable knowledge of natural history and his revolutionary new view of nature: ...