Definition: British naturalist, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was one of the greatest contributions to science yet known. A cautious man, Darwin wrote his The Origin of Species in the 1840s, but was unwilling to publish such a revolutionary text until Alfred Russel Wallace sent him a copy of his ideas along the similar line. Wallace and Darwin both published papers on the theory of evolution in 1858. 

Human Origins
How humans and our primitive ancestors evolved, and evidence of how our ancestors lived their lives.

Biographies
A collection of sites with biographies of famous archaeologists.   

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