If humans evolved from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys?
This is a question frequently posed by creationists—and quite often by perfectly rational people…
Author Archives: Richard Carter, FCD
Three new book reviews
I've just posted three new book reviews in the Books section.
Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
Attenborough reads Darwin
In celebration of his 90th birthday, the BBC has released a short video of Sir David Attenborough reading from the final paragraph of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Book review: ‘Darwin's Pigeons’ by Richard Bailey
A sumptuous photobook of pigeon varieties.
Book Review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
Review of ‘The Invention of Nature: the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science’.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
The Darwin bicentennial oak, 7 years on
Seven years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden.