The majority of the Museum's collections of Darwin's finches and pigeons are currently part of the ornithology (bird) collections kept at the Natural History Museum at Tring, Hertfordshire. A few of ...

Charles Robert Darwin ... and natural selection is at the heart of his explanation of evolution in his revolutionary book On the Origin of Species. After completing his experiments, he gave all 120 of ...

Darwin learns the art of taxidermy at Edinburgh's natural history museum. He later writes, "a negro lives in Edinburgh, who ... gained his livelihood by stuffing birds, which he did excellently ...

For fifteen years after his voyage aboard the Beagle, he primarily devoted himself to writings on geology, working on his new ideas of natural ... in human history. Today, Darwin's theories ...

Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection. The phrasing reflects his incomparable knowledge of natural history and his revolutionary new view of nature: ...

One of the rabbits from which DNA was sequenced belonged to Charles Darwin and is now housed in London’s Natural History Museum. Joel Alves said: “It wasn’t easy to get samples from so many long-dead ...

And has any evidence emerged that might challenge the elegant simplicity of Darwin s big idea?With Sandy Knapp, Senior Botanist at the Natural History Museum, Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics ...