Charles Darwin

Must Do’s: What we like this week

"Game of Thrones" launches into its third season and "The Shining" theorists get their due in "Room 237"

Prachi Gupta Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 2:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Books

“Between Man and Beast”: A great explorer with a secret

How the first scientist to bag a gorilla was plunged into the historic battles over evolution and race

Laura Miller Sunday, Mar 24, 2013 10:00 PM UTC
Entertainment What to Read, Science Books

Happy birthday, Charles Darwin

The English naturalist would have been 204 today. To celebrate, a roundup of the people who hate his guts SLIDE SHOW

Katie Mcdonough Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 6:56 PM UTC
Life slideshow, Darwin, Science

Darwin outperforms on ballot

Georgia voters protested an anti-science incumbent by writing-in the father of evolution

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 9:24 PM UTC 23
Life Election 2012

“Darwin’s Devices”: Here come the robot fish

A scientist uses aquatic automatons to plumb the mysteries of evolution, intelligence and the future

Laura Miller Monday, Apr 9, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment What to Read, Books

Huffington Post publishes anti-Darwin smears from creationist think tank

The "liberal" "news" site runs creationist propaganda and censors criticism of its decision

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 3:44 PM UTC 76
Politics Huffington Post, Charles Darwin

Creationism vs. atheism: It’s on!

A "revised" edition of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" turns college campuses into three-ring circuses

Laura Miller Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009 1:24 AM UTC 139
Entertainment Creationism, Charles Darwin

Inside the Creation Museum

Adam and Eve frolic amid the dinosaurs in the new $27 million museum that demonstrates Darwin has nothing on the Book of Genesis.

Gordy Slack Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:41 AM UTC 352
News Charles Darwin

Fear factors

Allen Shawn -- son of William, brother of Wallace -- is afraid of almost everything, but not of writing a memoir of his phobic life.

Christine Smallwood Monday, Feb 12, 2007 12:10 PM UTC
Entertainment Charles Darwin, Science, Books

More and more people are trying to trace their ancestry with a quick DNA test. A new book -- and my own experiment -- show that science can reveal some interesting things about your past, but not necessarily what you want to know.

Laura Miller Monday, Jun 26, 2006 1:01 PM UTC 48
Entertainment Evolution, Charles Darwin, Books

Going beyond God

Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God.

Steve Paulson Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 218
Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden

Hope for the homely

Research on male flycatchers topples Darwin's theory of sexual selection.

Sarah Elizabeth Richards Monday, May 8, 2006 6:45 PM UTC 57
Life Sex, Broadsheet, Charles Darwin

Priests in lab coats

Philosopher Michael Ruse is an ardent evolutionist who thinks creationism is claptrap. So why is he accusing atheistic scientists like Richard Dawkins of being as religious as born-again Bible thumpers?

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Aug 6, 2005 7:02 PM UTC
Entertainment Author Interviews, Evolution

The new Monkey Trial

By persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself.

Michelle Goldberg Tuesday, Jan 11, 2005 12:26 AM UTC
News Evolution, Charles Darwin

Invasion of the high-tech body snatchers

Ready for infrared vision, and hearts that work better than the original? While bioethicists obsess over cloning, bioengineers will soon be able to replace every part of our bodies.

Alan H. Goldstein Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Biotechnology, Evolution

A textbook case of bad science

Defenders of evolutionary theory in Texas say creation scientists are getting sneakier -- and more successful -- in getting their views into public school educational materials.

Katharine Mieszkowski Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Evolution, Charles Darwin, Texas

The dancing plant

Darwin was obsessed by it, although even he never trained his weedy Asian shrub to twitch its leaves to the sound of music. But in a small town in northern Thailand ...

Christopher Kemp Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003 8:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Charles Darwin, Thailand

Evolution, Enron-style

Not all fast-mutating organisms flourish. Some go extinct.

Amol Sarva Wednesday, Feb 13, 2002 8:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Enron, Evolution, Charles Darwin

Survival of the losers

Even Charles Darwin couldn't have predicted who would emerge from the Web's evolutionary shakeout.

Amol Sarva Wednesday, Jun 6, 2001 7:09 PM UTC
Entertainment Evolution, Charles Darwin

“The Man Who Found the Missing Link” by Pat Shipman

A new biography recounts the story of the brilliant scientist who fought priests, politicians and jungles to prove Darwin right.

Edward McSweegan Thursday, Jan 18, 2001 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Evolution, Charles Darwin, Books

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