﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Charles Darwin news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Charles Darwin stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/6988/charles-darwin.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:55:42 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74735/students-school-kirk-cameron-on-darwin.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Students School Kirk Cameron on Darwin</title><description>Kirk Cameron embarked on his Darwin-is-like-Hitler tour, visiting UCLA last week to pass out copies of a "revised" edition of On the Origin of the Species that tries to compare the two historical figures—and video has surfaced of the former Growing Pains actor getting taken down by a group...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74735/students-school-kirk-cameron-on-darwin.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:52:58 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74679/brits-hunt-stolen-darwin-notes.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Brits Hunt Stolen Darwin Notes</title><description>Amid a celebration, a mystery: A fresh appeal has been launched to find a missing notebook that Charles Darwin may have used to write On the Origin of Specie s, which was published 150 years ago today. The journal records Darwin's observations in the Galapagos Island and Peru. Authorities believe...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74679/brits-hunt-stolen-darwin-notes.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:24:27 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/71635/scientists-unearth-fossils-of-missing-link-flying-reptiles.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Scientists Unearth Fossils of 'Missing Link' Flying Reptiles</title><description>Scientists have discovered the remains of a flying reptile in China that they believe represents the "missing link" in a controversial theory of evolution. The reptile—named Darwinopterus in honor of Charles Darwin—lived some 160 million years ago and has features from both early, short-tailed pterodactyls and their huge,...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/71635/scientists-unearth-fossils-of-missing-link-flying-reptiles.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 2:04:26 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/69255/religious-america-snubs-darwin-film-producer.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Religious America Snubs Darwin Film: Producer</title><description>The producer of a new film about Charles Darwin says he hasn't landed a US distribution deal because Americans can't stand the theory of evolution, the Daily Mail reports. Creation , the story of Darwin's struggle between reason and faith as he wrote The Origin of Species , has opened the Toronto...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/69255/religious-america-snubs-darwin-film-producer.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:22:50 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/67644/image-rehab-appendix-is-good-for-something-after-all.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Image Rehab: Appendix Is Good for Something After All</title><description>The human appendix has been assumed to be useless since Charles Darwin first suggested it was a vestigial organ—an evolutionary remnant from the time when our predecessors ate leaves and other now-indigestible foods. But new research suggests the organ had a much more vital function, LiveScience reports. It stored...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/67644/image-rehab-appendix-is-good-for-something-after-all.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:08:14 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/66683/mosquito-invasion-threatens-galapagos-wildlife.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Mosquito Invasion Threatens Galapagos Wildlife</title><description>Scientists fear that winged invaders could wipe out native species on the islands where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution, the Times of London reports. Mosquitoes have been hitching rides to the Galapagos on incoming aircraft, and now Galapagos species—including iguanas, tortoises, and Darwin's finches—are in serious...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/66683/mosquito-invasion-threatens-galapagos-wildlife.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 2:10:19 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/65996/climate-change-already-causing-evolution.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Climate Change Already Causing Evolution</title><description>Global warming is changing the face of the planet, and a key panel estimates that a quarter of the world's species will die out—but a few organisms are already evolving to survive in a hotter world. In the past few years Scottish sheep have become smaller, while species of...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/65996/climate-change-already-causing-evolution.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 9:39:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/56960/fossil-of-missing-link-walking-seal-found.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Fossil of 'Missing Link' Walking Seal Found</title><description>The fossil of a semi-aquatic creature unearthed in northern Canada may hold the key to how seals and walruses evolved, the BBC reports. The carnivore—which resembles a cross between an otter and a seal—had feet that were webbed but weren't flippers. Scientists believe the animals walked on land...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/56960/fossil-of-missing-link-walking-seal-found.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 3:03:24 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/55827/egg-from-darwin-voyage-comes-to-light.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Egg From Darwin Voyage Comes to Light</title><description>The only egg known to have survived from Charles Darwin's round-the-world voyage on the Beagle has surfaced in Cambridge University's zoology museum, the BBC reports. A volunteer sorting through the museum's vast egg collection found the egg—from an ostrich-like bird in Uruguay—and realized it bore the naturalist's signature.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/55827/egg-from-darwin-voyage-comes-to-light.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 9:46:33 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>