What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

Most people have this image of Charles Darwin sitting under a tree, having a sudden lightbulb moment about how life works. In reality, it was a massive, decades-long slog that started with a five-year ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humanity’s understanding of life was forever altered when ...

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 ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...