A timepiece used on a seagoing voyage by the HMS Beagle – the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his travels – has been ...

A ship retracing Charles Darwin’s journey around the world is set to make a historic homecoming in Cornwall. The 108-year-old ...

A temporary export bar has been placed on a pocket chronometer present on the second voyage of HMS Beagle, well-known for ...

On August 29, 1831, Charles Darwin returned home from a geology field trip in North Wales to find a letter waiting for him from his Cambridge professor and mentor, John Stevens Henslow. It contained ...

Natural history museums have played a fundamental role in preserving scientific memory. However, many of these museums' scientific collections have remained underutilized in recent decades. The ...

A Dutch ship has left England on a two-year mission to study and save species discovered by Charles Darwin. The vessel is scheduled to retrace Darwin’s 1831 voyage.

Both are biographies featuring Darwin’s global circumnavigation between Dec. 27, 1831 and Oct. 2, 1836, and track, on the books’ inside covers, the round-trip voyage from Plymouth, England ...

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) Like so many great scientists, ... (1831), and through reading progressive philosophers, such as William Paley, author of Natural Theology (1802).

On This Day in 1831, Charles Darwin Embarked on a Journey That Led to His Groundbreaking Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin In 1831 this gentle Englishman set forth on his famous voyage in the Beagle. After 28 years he published Origin of Species, which revolutionized man's view of nature and his place in it ...