‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m
The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May
April 2024
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals
March 2024
Darwin’s plant specimens stored for 200 years to go on public display
Specimens collected on Voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed at Cambridge University archive
February 2024
Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time
300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s library
December 2023
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
Darwin in Patagonia: tracing the naturalist’s route around the foot of South America
Darwin spent more than half of the five years of the Beagle expedition in the most southerly region of Argentina, where his legacy is still vivid
November 2023
Country diary
Country diary: This 550-year-old tree stands for all of life
‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass
August 2023
In Darwin’s footsteps: sailing ship to retrace round-the-world voyage of the Beagle
On Monday, a three-masted schooner will set sail from Plymouth, taking outstanding young naturalists on a two-year educational trip. Crew members still needed …
March 2023
Dame Phyllida Barlow obituary
British sculptor determined to turn convention on its head to create vast, uncontainable works of art
December 2022
Country diary
Country diary: The holly and meadowsweet are flowering out of time
Egglestone, Teesdale: Unseasonal blooming could be the norm if we have more summer droughts and mild autumns – how closely is this being recorded?
October 2022
Charles Darwin autograph manuscript could fetch £700,000 at auction
Naturalist penned document in response to request for sample of his handwriting to reprint in magazine
September 2022
Book of the day
An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford review – Darwin’s outriders
A sprawling history of the illustrious Huxley family charts the evolution of science and society over 200 years
August 2022
Rare orchid flourishes in Charles Darwin’s gardens after two-year project
Unusually the violet helleborine is only pollinated by wasps and is thriving thanks to nectar that is irresistible to the insects
July 2022
How Charles Darwin got sexual selection wrong
Evolutionary biologists are ever adapting to progress in science
The Audio Long Read
Do we need a new theory of evolution? – podcast
Scientists are still fleshing out Darwin’s theory of evolution
June 2022
The long read
Do we need a new theory of evolution?
The long read: A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology
April 2022
Stolen Darwin journals returned to Cambridge University library
Seminal works left in pink gift bag with ‘happy Easter’ note for librarian after going missing in 2001
February 2022
Book of the day
Control by Adam Rutherford review – a warning from history about eugenics
To know the story of this dark science is to inoculate ourselves against its being repeated, argues the science writer and broadcaster
