Newsletter No. 5: Discovery and adventure

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

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!

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Talking with Towser

Podcast explains how Darwin's neighbour taught dogs to read!

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Dog Power!

Article about a dog-powered sewing machine from 'Popular Scientific Recreations, Profusely Illustrated'.

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Newsletter No. 7: Stirring up the mud

160 years after Darwin ‘stirred up the mud’, the ‘controversy’ over evolution by means of natural selection was settled long ago, as far as the scientific community is concerned.

Newsletter No. 6: Building on a theory

To mark Charles Darwin’s 211th birthday, some thoughts on his 1871 classic, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, an unlikely anecdote about a snail, plus all the usual book reviews and links to Darwin-related news stories.