Stories by Richard Milner

Artist Charles R. Knight drew on his vast experience depicting living animals to bring prehistoric creatures to life—a practice that made him keenly aware of the finality of extinction

When the scientific establishment put a spiritualist on trial, the co-discoverers of natural selection took opposing sides

and other insights into why people choose science

Using his quiet country estate as headquarters, the great naturalist was a reclusive revolutionary

Charles Darwin sought clues to human nature by studying the behavior of his own children and other wild animals

The Famous Islands Before and After Charles Darwin

When the scientific establishment put a spiritualist on trial, the co-discoverers of natural selection took opposing sides

This newly rediscovered photograph appears to be the last ever made of the great evolutionist