It was in this pivotal year that Darwin, back from his voyage on the Beagle and trying to understand the forces that drove the origin of new species, read the works of Thomas Malthus, a parson and ...

Darwin's letters to his mentor John Stevens Henslow, a professor of botany at Cambridge University, were later read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and described his observations of ...

Writer worries about this because it contradicts the theories scientists have held since Darwin's time. Alexander Karp, Palantir’s philosopher-C.E.O., thinks that a restored military-industrial ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...