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Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Natural Selection. Natural selection is Darwin’s most famous theory; it states that evolutionary change comes through the production of variation in each generation and differential survival of individuals

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Young Man! The most common image of Darwin is as an old man with a bushy beard, a bald head, and usually a bit of sour expression on his face. This is a great shame as such images fail to get

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Symbiosis: No Man Is An Island. John Donne once wrote that no man is an island. Biology can go one better and can assert that no organism is an island either! Clearly no organism exists wholly by itself in

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Human Evolution. Please see the corresponding article in the Works section. 2015 Christ's College, Cambridge. Primate 6 Faces by Stephen D. Nash/Conservation International. 1997. Used with permission. 2024.

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin The Philosopher. Darwin is remembered for his brilliant science: in many ways though he was equally gifted in philosophy. He himself made many fundamental changes to the way we approach philosophy, and his work has

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. What Is Evolution? Evolution is the slow process that changes animals and plants and it’s a great piece of science! It describes loads of things in nature like fossils, peacocks' tails, lions’ teeth,

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Trilobites. This case study focuses on a group of extinct early arthropods called trilobites. Trilobites were a hugely successful group and they are the most diverse group recorded in the fossil record, but

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. Science works by continually testing and revising its theories. Darwin's theories on how evolution works have been no exception. 150 years worth of research has shown that Darwin was right, but have also

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Mimicry. When one species looks very similar to another we say they mimic one another. You’ll be familiar with some common mimics, for example many bee, wasp and hoverfly species mimic each other all

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Hox Genes & Animal Body Plans. Animals have very different body plans. Compare, for example, a centipede to a bird, or a mouse to a fly, and it’s easy to see the differences. How has evolution produced