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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Discovery and adventure’

Our fifth newsletter marks the anniversary of Charles Darwin setting sail aboard HMS Beagle.

Published 27-Dec-2019
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: alexander von humboldt, beagle voyage, charles lyell, climate change, dippers, dogs, fossils, great apes, hominins, homo erectus, human evolution, neanderthals, the mount, voyage of the beagle (book)
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Newsletter No. 4: ‘Giant leaps’

Apollo 11 · Origin of Species · Richard Owen · Charles Lyell · sloths · lice · deaf moths · pregnant lizards · puppy eyes · palaeoanthropology · book reviews · heads on spikes!

Published 20-Jul-2019
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: anthropology, charles lyell, dogs, expression of emotions, insects, origin of species, richard owen, sloths, space
Balanus crenatus
Fossil Balanus crenatus barnacles (labelled by Darwin). Natural History Museum.

Newsletter No. 3: ‘Knee-deep in barnacles’

Our third newsletter marks Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday.

Published 12-Feb-2019
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: alice roberts, barnacles, bicentennial oak, charles darwin, conrad martens, darwin's illness, joseph dalton hooker, stamps
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Newsletter No. 2: ‘Writing with a dip pen’

Our second newsletter marks the 159th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’…

Published 24-Nov-2018
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: alice roberts, bats, birds, cetaceans, charles darwin, darwin's finches, galapagos islands, henrietta darwin, human, ilkley, katrina van grouw, ken thompson, moths, newsletters, origin of species, plants
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Newsletter No. 1: ‘Auspicious date’

Our very first newsletter went out on 160th anniversary of Charles Darwin finally going public with his Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection. As anniversaries go, that’s a biggie…

Published 01-Jul-2018
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: alfred russel wallace, charles darwin, darwin's experiments, newsletters

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Published 24-Feb-2018
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