January 2012 – The Friends of Charles Darwin

Book review: ‘How to be a Bad Birdwatcher’ by Simon Barnes

Birdwatching, not Birding.

Will a new HMS Beagle set sail in 2013?

The Beagle Project's Peter McGrath, writing in the Guardian Notes & Theories blog.

NEWSLETTER

Newsletter No. 11: Give that man a medal!
A contentious gong · loads of links · book recommendations · Alfred Russel Wallace’s missing ‘L‘
Newsletter No. 10: Attending a very little to species
In which Darwin gets to work on species, and I disappear down a research rabbit-hole. With loads of links to recent Darwin- and evolution-related stories.

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