New Australopithecus afarensis fossil.
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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.
Channel crossings
A study of prehistoric animals has revealed the crucial role of the English Channel in shaping the course of Britain's natural history
Crane fly season
It's cranefly season in West Yorkshire. Could the swallows be to blame?
Stone the crows
My own theory on the decline of the lapwing in the UK.
Tenuous links
I'm sure we can learn certain things about human behaviour by studying chimps, but I can't help feeling people read far too much into such studies.
Swallows preparing for migration
Barn swallows spotted feeding their young.
When the infallible embraces the unfalsifiable
Pope prepares to embrace theory of intelligent design.
Woodpeckers' toes and woodpeckers' kludges
I've been reading up about woodpeckers.
Shell-shocked
New FOCD membership goes ballistic.
Welcome to the Red Notebook
Opening the pages on my new Darwinian weblog.
This was supposed to be a low-key relaunch!
Pharyngulated!
Stephen Jay Gould: Punctuationist comes to an untimely full-stop
We had lost one of these rare ministers and interpreters of Nature whose names mark epochs in the advance of natural knowledge… It is curious now to remember how largely, at first, the objectors predominated; but considering the usual fate of new views, it is still more curious to consider for how short a time… Continue reading Stephen Jay Gould: Punctuationist comes to an untimely full-stop