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.

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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’…

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

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

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Pretty in pink

Pink iguana rewrites family tree.

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

Darwin first sets foot on the Galapagos Islands.

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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.