Charles Darwin's revolutionary book On the Origin of Species turns 150 on Tuesday. It's the book where Darwin introduced the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest. To mark the ...

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A rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s seminal work on natural selection has been returned to the Boston Public Library after disappearing at least eight decades ago. An 1859 copy of Darwin’s ...

This weekend, Bruce Barcott reviewed two new children's books about Charles Darwin, timed for the 150th anniversary of the Origin of Species. Deborah Heiligman's Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of ...

The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" By published "The Origin of Species," he put evolution on the map and ignited a ...

A first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” book sold for about $60,000 Thursday, an auctioneer in London said. The work, still in its original embossed green binding, was bought by ...

CHARLES DARWIN—Henshaw Ward—Bobbs-Merrill ($5). The Man, in his old age, looked exactly like that preposterous old South African, whose picture, displayed in advertisements or in his book, is now in ...

LONDON — An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” found in a family’s guest lavatory in southern England. Christie’s auction house said ...

Christie's auction house says the book — one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 — had been on a toilet bookshelf at a home in England. An auction house says it is selling a rare first ...