I recently received an e-mail about the upcoming release of a new film about the life of Charles Darwin, and the personal turmoil he coped with on the path to his groundbreaking research on the theory ...

Charles Darwin: Victorian mythmaker, by A. N. Wilson, John Murray A. N. Wilson is a prolific author who has written more than 45 books, including many biographies of subjects ranging from Queen ...

Janet Browne originally intended to call this first of a two-volume life “Darwin: Another Biography.” Indeed. No intellectual giant of the modern era has received as much biographical attention as ...

Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published in 1859 and is considered the basis of evolutionary biology. (Oli Scarff/GETTY IMAGES) Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the department ...

It may seem peculiar to write a biography of a book, but Darwin's Origin of Species is certainly a worthy subject. A foremost Darwin biographer, Browne takes a straightforward approach to the life and ...

While forming his theory of common descent, Charles Darwin peered beyond his observations of ants, barnacles and blue-footed boobies to try to comprehend a broader subject: human slavery. He ...

Acclaimed narrative historian Diana Preston (“Eight Days at Yalta”; “Lusitania”; “Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima”), a first cousin of Charles Darwin’s wife Emma “many generations ...

At my conservative private school in the South, evolution was the science that dare not speak its name. My sixth grade biology teacher told us it was “just a theory that you don’t have to believe.” In ...

After months of resistance, the creators of the Charles Darwin bio-pic "Creation" say they're close to getting a distribution deal in the United States. "There is now a bidding war for the film in the ...