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The famous tome is valued at £275,000 and will cost you just £50 to get a page or two of the action

The Blavatnik Wing will host portraits of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the Bronte sisters and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

In 1835 Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, was exploring an island in the Galápagos archipelago when he encountered “two large tortoises, each of which must have weighed at least two hundred pounds”. He had never seen anything like them. He became entranced by the animals and…

Naturalist penned document in response to request for sample of his handwriting to reprint in magazine

When two burly blokes hustled the director of the Australian Museum down the front steps and out onto the street in 1874, it marked the end of a particularly spicy chapter of the institution's history.

In the deep oceans we find a number of unchanged “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times.

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times.

A sprawling history of the illustrious Huxley family charts the evolution of science and society over 200 years

The famously dry region has long been dismissed as a mostly lifeless wasteland, good for little more than mining. To these researchers, it’s a microbial gold mine worthy of protection.