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Newsletter No. 13: ‘Some excellent news’

Some great news • How the internet is supposed to work • Darwin plays backgammon • Links and book reviews • a necessary owl

Published 08-Apr-2022
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: charles darwin, darwin correspondence project, darwin online, dinosaurs, galapagos islands, neanderthals, notebooks, owls
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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.

Published 30-Jul-2021
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: beagle voyage, charles darwin, charles lyell, darwin's finches, galapagos islands, human evolution, john gould, mockingbirds, tortoises
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus (1766–1834)

Newsletter No. 8: ‘Reading for amusement’

Darwin reads Malthus · mass extinctions · earthworms · Gilbert White · Lonesome George · lichen · zebras · Neanderthals · life on Venus? · bats · book reviews · and more…

Published 28-Sep-2020
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: astrobiology, bats, charles darwin, earthworms, galapagos islands, gilbert white, mass extinctions, natural selection, neanderthals, podcasts, stephen jay gould, thomas malthus, tortoises
Snail

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.

Published 12-Feb-2020
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: charles darwin, descent of man, dinosaurs, evolution, expression of emotions, galapagos islands, neanderthals, origin of species, sexual selection
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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
‘Galápagos: the Islands that Changed the World’

Documentary review: ‘Galápagos: the Islands that Changed the World’

Totally awesome three-part series about some rather special islands.

Published 18-Jul-2012
Filed under: Reviews Genres: Videos Tags: galapagos islands, reviews, videos

Pretty in pink

Pink iguana rewrites family tree.

Published 07-Jan-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: beagle voyage, charles darwin, galapagos islands, iguanas, reptiles
Land iguana

16-Sep-1835: Darwin sets foot on the Galápagos Islands

Darwin first sets foot on the Galápagos Islands.

Published 16-Sep-2007
Filed under: Articles Tags: anniversaries, charles darwin, galapagos islands

Not quite so lonesome

Pinta tortoise DNA found on another Galapagos island.

Published 30-Apr-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: conservation, galapagos islands, genetics, lonesome george, reptiles, tortoises

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