Most biographers agree that Charles Darwin came up with his big idea about the evolution of species when he was a fairly young man, a touch under 30. And yet, he didn't publish his theory for ...

Three decades after Carolus Linnaeus’s death, Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England, the fifth child of a prosperous physician. It was 1809; the intermittently mad George III ruled ...

Did Charles Darwin wait twenty-one years to begin presenting his most groundbreaking arguments to the world because he feared being called a heretic by the Church of England? For decades, many ...

Published in England barely a month before, Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was sent by the author himself to Asa Gray, ... child-welfare activist Charles Loring Brace, who, ...

Darwin's third child, Mary Eleanor, lived for only 23 days and died in 1842 of an unknown cause. Annie, his first daughter and second child, died in 1851, and his last child, Charles Waring, died ...