On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ... Darwin himself made a stab at drawing a "tree of life," a diagram that traces the evolutionary relationships among species based on ...

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 ...

HE spent his formative years studying at the University of Edinburgh before publishing his ground-breaking work which changed the accepted wisdom about how species evolved. Now, the full personal ...

It is one of the processes by which species change from generation to generation, and is a crucial element of the theory of evolution. A classic example of natural selection at work is the origin ...

However, although fossil and genetic data are consistent with an African origin for our species, the Aurignacian has no clear antecedents in the African archaeological record, and probably first ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...