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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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