Home » Topics » Charles Darwin
Scientists solve Darwin’s Falkland Islands wolf mystery
PARIS — It was an animal that puzzled Charles Darwin, who wondered how on Earth a large mammal that looked a bit like a wolf and a bit like a fox had arrived on barren islands nearly 500 kilometres (300 miles) from the mainland. Now, say biologists, the mystery of…
The private life of Charles Darwin
When not busy pioneering his theory of natural selection, Darwin also applied scientific logic to courting the female of the species There are few books that provide a better insight into genius than Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Not only does it give a powerful sense of the…
‘Lies from the Pit of Hell’ congressman’s opponents mounting write-in campaign for Darwin
Controversial U.S. Congressman Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) could be facing competition in this fall’s election from an unexpected quarter, a British naturalist who has been dead for 130 years, Charles Darwin, the so-called father of the theory of evolution. According to the Associated Press, University of Georgia scientists and conservative…
Attractive friends make profiles more popular on Facebook: Study
Having attractive friends will make you more popular on Facebook, especially if you are a woman, according to a new study that takes Charles Darwin into the domain of cyber networking. The findings show that signs of reproductive fitness sway our decisions about friendship, Dutch researcher Piet Kommers told AFP.…
Science overturns view of humans as naturally ‘nasty’
VANCOUVER, Canada — Biological research increasingly debunks the view of humanity as competitive, aggressive and brutish, a leading specialist in primate behavior told a major science conference. “Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies,” Frans de Waal, a biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, told the annual meeting of the…
Just more silly history, or silly history with scary potential?
Did a couple of pioneering obstetricians secretly murder dozens of pregnant women in the name of science? Lindsay makes the compelling case for “Not bloody likely”. These kinds of revisionist histories that postulate all sorts of fantastical theories without much evidence are all over the place, with some of the…
The real, super-true, completely verified story of Darwin’s conversion
The wingnuts are at it again, according to PZ, pushing that ridiculous story about how Darwin converted to Christianity on his deathbed. It’s time to set the record straight and explain how it really happened. There was no Lady Hope that visited Darwin on his deathbed, but there was Lady…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Watch live: Obama addresses tornado disaster in Oklahoma
- Navy dolphins discover 130-year-old torpedo off San Diego coast
- South Carolina woman kills boyfriend with shotgun while ‘playing around’
- Watch live: Senate committee grills Apple CEO about hiding money in offshore accounts
- Oklahoma Sen. Coburn: Tornado relief funds must be offset with spending cuts
- ‘We thought we were dead’ says Oklahoma tornado survivor
- The Orange Couch Does Mad Men: S7E8, “The Crash”
- Elderly woman finds lost dog trapped in rubble during CBS interview
- Colbert concludes tea partiers are ‘a bunch of pussies’ after consulting his lawyer
- Factory blast in China leaves 13 dead, 20 missing
Commentary
An open letter to the Center for Inquiry
By Amanda Marcotte
Stop whining about Millennials
By Pando Daily
Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration’s scandals
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
