Vestigial features in letterboxes and organisms.
Month: August 2007
Dawkins on alternative therapy
Shambhala lies: Dawkins tries mumbo-jumbo.
Consumed with jealousy
My friends Hitchin & Soo go whale-spotting.
Chalk another one up for science
Science explains the Perseid meteor shower.
Sound science
This week, I finally got to carry out a little experiment I've been planning for some time.
Nature red in tooth, claw, horn, you name it…
Amazing YouTube video.
Figurehead of the imagination?
Did HMS Beagle have a figurehead?
A modern seed dispersal mechanism
How fast roads assist seed dispersal.
05-Aug-1832: Darwin under fire (get used to it, Charles!)
On 5th August 1832, in what he described as ‘an eventful day’, Charles Darwin and his HMS Beagle colleagues helped put down an armed insurrection in Argentina.
The Beagle Project Blog has moved
The Beagle Project Blog has moved and has a sexy new design.
Stop anthropomorphising!
Evolutionary psychologists are at it again!
Recommended reading
'Charles Darwin's Origin of Species: a biography' by Janet Browne.