Indeed, On The Origin of Species (1859) continues to influence ... via mutation were to come long after Darwin's founding theories of evolution. A major turning point for evolutionary research ...

In 1942 he published his most important work, Systematics and the Origin of Species. Mayr moved to Harvard ... Mayr proposed that Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain all of ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

Each is a member of a family of birds called honeycreepers, and they all share the same common ancestor: a single finchlike species that scientists estimate arrived on the Hawaiian Islands about 5 ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story ...

In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who studied variation in plants, animals and fossils during a five-year voyage ...

The Museum’s Library holds the world's largest concentration of Darwin works, with 478 editions of On the Origin of Species in 38 languages ... but it took several years before he came up with his ...

An evolutionary biologist has challenged the long-held theory that suggests the first ... are the most likely candidates for the origin of the species, Dr Huang has contended.

Take a closer look at nine highlights from the collections we care for, including Darwin’s favourite octopus and a rare first edition of his book, On the Origin of Species. While on HMS Beagle, Darwin ...

No need for niches? Neutral theory explains biodiversity when species are identical. Niche differences, or the unique ways that each species “makes its living” in nature, are the classical ...

The Japanese wolf, last seen in 1905, was a cross between a giant variant and an unknown variant, scientists said in a theory that differs from two existing hypotheses on the mysterious creature.