Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species that have lived on Earth. The Museum’s Library holds the world's largest concentration of Darwin works, with 478 editions of ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...