So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of ... Just a few days later, his father’s mind changed. Darwin hastened to accept the offer to see the watery part of the world ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles Darwin. Today, researchers using the genetic ...

Charles Darwin was first drawn to science as a young boy by his intense interest in the diverse animals and plants that filled his surroundings. Later, despite his father's urgings to pursue a ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the ... He studied with his brother Erasmus at Edinburgh University but disliked the idea of following in his father's footsteps as a ...

Charles's father Robert has many concerns about the proposed voyage. Charles makes a list of them: "(1) Disreputable to my character as a Clergyman hereafter. Darwin rushes to his uncle Josiah ...

He was already worried about his own marriage. Darwin and his cousin Emma had ten children and Charles was a devoted father. Yet the couple had now lost a son and two daughters, and nursed others ...