Review of the forthcoming book 'Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins' by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.
Month: January 2009
Darwin puts his foot down
Not impressed with Emma's choice of wallpaper.
Contemplating a tangled bank
Darwin's tangled bank was most surely in Blighty!
Pretty in pink
Pink iguana rewrites family tree.
The end of a great legacy?
Wedgwood goes into administration.
01-Mar-1853: Darwin on ice!
On 1st March 1853, Charles Darwin wrote to his son William about, erm… playing ice-hockey!
Shock treatment
Charles Darwin tries galvanisation.
It makes one's blood boil
Slavery still occurring in Brazil 173 years after Darwin left.
Such modest ambitions, Mr Darwin!
In 1841, Darwin's ill-health evidently left him with low expectations of his future ability to contribute to science.
The surprise punctuationist
On how Charles Darwin believed that evolution did not have to occur at a constant rate.
Bon voyage
Best wishes to film-maker, fellow Merseysider, and Friend of Charles Darwin, Graham Hughes, who this month sets off on a frankly bonkers one-year odyssey to visit every member state of the United Nations, with a few other territories thrown in for good measure to bring the grand total to a nice, round 200.
Darwin Year
So, it's finally here: 2009. Darwin Year.