charles darwin

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalist for decades and ultimately led to his death, modern researchers say....

(Genetics Society of America) Scientists from the University of Oxford, UK have taken lessons from Adam Smith and Charles Darwin to devise a new strategy that could one day slow, possibly even prevent, the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.

The scientists show that bacterial gene mutations that lead to drug resistance come at a biological cost not borne by nonresistant strains.

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, political journalist Dennis Sewell talks to TIME about how the naturalist's big idea has been harnessed for sinister ends