New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls ‘one of the most diverse family trees’ he’s ever come across.

Galileo’s scientific discoveries memorialized him as the father of modern astronomy. Adam Smith reaped the posthumous profits of notoriety as the father of capitalism, and Edgar Allen Poe’s puzzling ...

The Charles Darwin archive now joins this esteemed list, underscoring its historical, scientific, and cultural significance. The inscription of the Charles Darwin archive comes as part of UNESCO’s ...

The extensive collection amassed by Darwin during his 40 years at Down paint a picture of Darwin's professional and personal life and the intersection of the two. The archive here includes over 200 ...

About Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1831 and was recommended by the Professor of Botany John Stevens ...

About Charles Darwin: Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1831 and was recommended by the Professor of Botany John Stevens ...

Charles Darwin couldn't find these ... the Rodríguez-Sede family’s limited funding has prevented them from sending recent DNA ... There are no trees or mountains—“just stone, stone ...

The Tree of Life is organized chronologically, beginning with Darwin's birth into a prosperous English family in 1809. Because the author is tracing the influences on the young Darwin, both familial ...

Charles Darwin’s frogs are endemic to India’s Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The biggest are only 1.5 inches long. They belong to the family Dicroglossidae, which comprises over 220 ...

The frog in question is Charles Darwin’s frog ... that not only were the frogs the only species within the wider frog family Dicroglossidae to lay their eggs in water-filled tree holes, ...

Charles Darwin was born into a wealthy family, in 1809, ... For instance, I once gathered much valuable fruit from my Father’s trees and hid them in the shrubbery, ...

Using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from over 9,500 species covering almost 8,000 plant genera (groups of closely related species), the research team was able to create the most detailed tree of ...