There’s a quote often misattributed to Charles Darwin, the famed evolutionary biologist, that I’ve been thinking about a lot ...

Darwin underscores the vast excess of reproduction. “...individuals having any advantage, however slight...would have the best chance...” – this is the essence of adaptation. “On the other ...

In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and ...

Natural selection describes a biological mechanism that allows organisms to adapt best to their environment effectively. The theory of natural selection outlined by Charles Darwin provides the ...