Many of us know the story of how Charles Darwin (1809–1882) took a five-year voyage aboard The Beagle to the…
When Jack Kerouac drove into “the great American night,” then poured its manic pace into On the Road, he created…
Life Ascending, by the author of Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World and Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the…
The third and final member of a chain of Athenian philosophers who would shape the foundation of Western philosophy, Aristotle (384…
Untangling the cause and effect relationships embedded in historical events can be a complicated endeavor. This is especially true when complex…
British biologist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about…
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) laid the foundations of evolutionary biology through the process of natural selection, which he outlined in…
1. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. Today, his interest in plant life would have rendered little Charles…
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution includes two generative components: mutation and natural selection. Mutation generates genetic variants and hence phenotypes;…
German physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch (1843–1910) is considered the founder of modern bacteriology. He identified the causative agents of…