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Newsletter No. 5: Discovery and adventure

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

Three encounters with orang-utans

Charles Darwin in 1838, Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855, and my partner's nephew in 2006.

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Newsletter No. 11: Give that man a medal!
A contentious gong · loads of links · book recommendations · Alfred Russel Wallace’s missing ‘L‘
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.

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