News about Charles Darwin

On the picturesque Isle of Wight, a Jurassic-sized property deal involving a historic past and close links to the discovery of a rare dinosaur is up for auction. The Grade II listed property on Rectory Lane, Brighstone Bay, is listed for £1.4 million, where the remains of a rare fossil were discovered on a cliff nearby by clergyman and palaeontologist Reverend William D Fox. However, the house has more than dinosaur bones in its closet, as Charles Darwin himself paid a visit to the reverend at the sprawling six-bedroom home. The building has a history intertwined with Rev. John Bruton's remarkable work. Fox, who discovered a fossil in a bed of blue shale clay at a cliff on Brighstone Bay in 1865, was the first explorer of a dinosaur fossil. He brought the bones back to his home and meticulously reconstructed the ancient beast across the lawn

In the late 1930s, David Barron was just into his teens when he first appeared at the Mid-Yorkshire Institution for the Mentally Defective. He had been taken from a foster home where he had been cruelly treated, and had been taken there by local council authorities. 'Goodbye, lad,' 'We're hoping you'll soon settle in,' they said. He was led into a huge dining room that was packed with around 500 people. It was not the noise that would remain in his memory, but the sight of the bars on the windows. With the clanging of keys locking and unlocking every room and corridor, the sense that he was in jail has been closed in. David was an orphanage. There was no one around who was missing him, and there was no one to investigate him. The institution, which is ten miles west of York, is located on a large, forbidding'reformatory' building surrounded by strictly segregated dormitory blocks for both men and women, later renamed Whixley Colony.

Children born as a result of a first-cousins or close relatives have a higher chance of inheriting a variety of genetic disorders than the general population. For example, one academic study looking at the prevalence of 'extreme' inbreeding - where parents of a child are presumed to be first- or second-degree relatives - found 125 British people out of a sample of 450,000. The first degree links include those between parent and child, while the second degree includes more distant, but also genetic close relatives, such as half-siblings. The 2019 report was extrapolated to the wider population, implying that 13,000 Brits were born by extreme inbreeding. The authors noted that true rates could be significantly higher or lower depending on the subject and the small number of Brits included in the study. For the first cousin marriages, they were once more popular and included some well-known historical figures. Charles Darwin (right), the father of evolution, married Emma Wedgwood (left), and Albert Einstein (right) married his first cousin Elsa Lowenthal (right).

Early Earth may have had the necessary elements for life long before anything on our planet existed. Scientists now have proof that these substances may have existed on their own. These experiments lend new insight into the 'RNA World' hypothesis of life,' claiming that the early Earth's primordial soup was brimming with single-stranded RNA that eventually gave rise to organisms.

Human tails were discovered 25 million years ago by scientists at New York University, who discovered it all came down to a single snippet of DNA that is not found in monkeys. Tail length in certain animals is determined by the gene TBXT, and tails are lost when a small amount of DNA called AluY is introduced.

Captain James Cook is ripe for demolition at this moment, according to the attackers. He has also been targeted in Australia by 'anti-racism' campaigners, who have been bitterly chastised in Australasia, particularly Australia. And now the vandals have struck. Not sure about the Cook statues in the United Kingdom yet, but in Australia, the same statues were on display. The bronze statue of Cook (top right), which was built in 1914, has been sawn off at the ankles and kicked off its plinth (left), which has been painted in red with the phrase 'The Colony will fall'. In contrast, red is the vandals' color, since it implies that there is blood on the hands of such figures. Cooking is inaccurate. Red paint was also sprayed over Melbourne's Queen Victoria monument, which was daubed with the same word. Cook's depiction of taking possession of New South Wales is on display at the bottom right.

Following the discovery, the anonymous man, who is believed to be from the United States, took to Quora to request assistance. He delved into the mystery in the story, which has recently resurfaced, when he confessed to being closely linked to a family friend for the better part of a decade. Hundreds of stunned readers flooded to the comments to weigh in on the controversy.

What will 2024 bring? One thing is for certain: nothing ever stays the same in a garden. Ciar Byrne, a UK garden specialist, has shared her predictions...

With England now well into storm season, we can often take Met Office warnings for granted, as they seem to be released on an almost daily basis throughout winter. However, weather forecasts and the famous Shipping Forecast by BBC Radio 4 each day can be traced back to 1859, the forecasting agency's first days, after a devastating storm smashed across the Irish Sea. On October 25, the 'Royal Charter Gale' struck without alert killing 800 people and destroying 133 ships, including the vessel that later gave it its name. Wind speeds in the Mersey were the highest ever recorded at the time, and twice as many people were lost at sea around the British Isles as opposed to the entire 1858 period. The storm, which was the most severe to reach the Irish Sea in the 19th century, inspired Met Office founder Captain Robert FitzRoy to develop a national storm warning system.

When playing a two-person game, Israeli researchers conditioned a group of men to smell either women's emotional tears or saline, a mix of salt and water. The game was supposed to incite aggressive conduct against the other player, whom the guys were led to believe was cheating. The guys may get revenge on the other player by causing them to forfeit money if given the opportunity.

When he bought the 117-year-old bungalow in March, Tom Glanfield set a record for the price paid for a house on the exclusive Dorset peninsula. However, the 45-year-old will now flatten the colonial-style house that occupies the largest waterside plot on the millionaires' row.

Lewis Pugh has smashed records in endurance swimming as a result of climate change awareness. He tells Samuel Fishwick what inspired him to go to such great lengths

This majestic oak tree was already 300 years old, more than 200 years ago, before a young Charles Darwin may have played in its branches. Darwin's Oak and eight other ancient trees will be felled to make way for the £80 million ($97.3 million) Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR). Despite months of resistance, it was only after a narrow vote on the Shropshire planning commission condemning the trees to utterment. Advocates for the road insist it will link the North and West of the town, reducing traffic and improving the economy. However, campaigners and local opposition organizations claim that the move would jeopardize a vital piece of green space.

Kathryn Flett, a UK writer, loved watching ITV's Three Little Birds this week, but it lacked a 'nuance.' Sir Lenny Henry's six-part drama chronicles three Jamaican immigrants' lives.

Since Ecuador's youngest ever president was re-elected last weekend, the Latin American is also welcoming Angela Lavinia Noboa, 25, to the presidential palace. The mother of one, who posts toddler Alvaro with her partner Daniel, has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Instagram, as well as a specialized nutritionist who shares her personal and family life, as well as tips for a healthy lifestyle.

Princess Beatrice Mozzi's former secondary Radley College was rated as the best public school by the British society, although St Hugh's in Oxfordshire was rated for top preparations. Parents pay £16,025 a term and Radley College, which is also located in Oxfordshire, boasts an on-campus art gallery as well as extra-curricular activities ranging from opera appreciation to wine tasting and flight simulation. Brighton College, Sussex, was a shortlist that included the prestigious college. The school is the most expensive in the UK at £65,000 per year for a complete sixth-form boarder. Here, FEMAIL reveals the schools that came out as the best in the class - and those that were nominated in the competitions.

Parents want to be sure that their children are in the right hands as the new school year begins and parents are planning to drop their children off. Tatler's society bible has ranked the nation's best prep and public schools, and they come at a hefty price. These organizations have produced some outstanding alumni, including Princess Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mozzi, and late comedian Peter Cook, who both attended Radley College. Charles Darwin, one of the world's most respected biologists, walked through Shrewsbury School's halls aged nine. FEMAIL announces the following schools that have been nominated by Tatler as the best in the class...

Claudia Joseph catches glimpses of short-eared owls and snorkels in 'crystal-clear' waters amid white-tipped reef sharks and Galapagos penguins on her trip to Galapagos Islands. 'It's the joy of the Galapagos,' she says, 'being able to see nature up close and personal.' She sails on expedition yacht La Pinta for a four-night cruise around the islands...

The Oxford English Dictionary was not created by a team of dons and professors, and it was actually the Wikipedia of its day, assembled by a huge army of ordinary people. Among a diverse cast of housewives, factory inspectors, engineers, social activists, and a slew of others, three murderers and at least four people of psychiatric institutions have been listed as contributors. Over a 36-year span from 1880 to 1915, James Murray, a generous and devoted family man who had left school at 14 with no formal training, arranged thousands of volunteers recruited globally by newspaper advertisements.

The broadcaster, 97, is back to our screens this fall to host a third season of BBC favourite Planet Earth. Sir David Attenborough has been given the opportunity to host the show for the third time in a row. According to The Mirror, BBC bosses are thrilled to see the show continue with the network for another season. He's reportedly started filming his introduction scenes and has recorded the narration of the wildlife film.

It's always a gamble to order one dessert and two forks. But, the feeling of resentment against the individual across the table who has more than their fair share could lead to an elegantly simple solution... Game theory. According to a new book, the branch of applied mathematics, which is more commonly used by Wall Street brokers trying to figure out when to sell stock, can also be used to make a slice of cheesecake or chocolate cake. To prevent one person in a couple or a cynical friend from stealing the lion's share, one of them should move a knife from left to right across the slice, with either person yelling'stop' as they reach the halfway point. The individual who says stop is given the left-hand piece, which they are content with because it is half the dessert.

The Court of Appeal ruled the government's proposal to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda as unlawful on June 19, 2023. The government is expected to contest this decision in the country's highest court, the Supreme Court. However, if the Rwandan scheme falters, it is expected that the government is still in the early stages of a radical 'Plan B', which will see illegal migrants transferred 4,000 refugees to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. But where is Ascension Island?What is the population of the territory?And will it be Rwanda's 'plan B?

NEIL DERBYSHIRE: Ascension Island is one of the world's most remote locations. Africa, 1,000 miles to the north-east, is the closest continental land mass, lying just south of the Equator. If you're heading westwards, Brazil will be the first landfall, 1,400 miles away. This blackened, mainly unlovely lump of volcanic rock leapt straight out of the South Atlantic to a record of nearly 3,000 feet was first reported by an obscure Galician explorer in 1501. Afonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese emperor, recovered' it on Ascension Day 1503, hence the name.

The Ice Age's ingenuity was put to the test early in life, as well as increasing natural selection. According to a recent study that blends anthropological data, climate data, and economic modeling, the frigid temperatures sparked "parental cooperation" and advanced language skills. The study's authors argue that this sort of positive natural selection due to sexual preference over competition has been 'largely ignored for over a century'