Surrounding the globe are various rocks from Darwin's collection, and at the press of a button, the viewer can see the sample location on the globe and read interesting tit-bits. Almost every ...

"If Darwin could read the article, he would certainly be relieved: his theory has proven robust to the vagaries of the rock record. Deep-time fossil data—however incomplete—supports our ...

recent shells and corals, which it has baked into a hard white rock. Since then the whole island has been upheaved." Darwin's sickness-induced "dreary thoughts" soon are swept away as he explores ...

Darwin, like many intellectuals of his era, was well versed in a variety of natural sciences, as well as in medicine and theology. When he set forth on his first voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, he ...

and fossils of more complex organisms in the newest rocks. This supports Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that simple life forms gradually evolved into more complex ones. Evidence for ...

One of the packages contains pieces of rock collected from a volcanic ditch, discovered by Charles Darwin in 1842 at Butterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme. The other package contains the seeds of a ...