Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection challenged the idea that God made all the animals and plants that live on Earth.

Coevolution has been studied for almost as long as the theory of evolution by natural selection has been around. Throughout their writings, Darwin and Wallace both recognized the importance of the ...

They have done nothing less than witness Darwin's theory of evolution unfold before their eyes. That would have stunned Darwin, who thought natural selection operated over vast periods of time and ...

Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. Wallace was born in 1823 in Usk - now in Monmouthshire. After leaving school he ...

Tui De Roy / Minden Pictures In Charles Darwin’s day, the Galápagos Islands were perhaps the best place in the world to observe evidence of evolution by natural selection. They still are.

Evolution can be defined as the change in the frequency of a phenotype in a population over many generations. Mutations can be inherited if they occur in DNA that is passed on to the next ...