inelegant design – The Friends of Charles Darwin

Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts

Evolution and the making of us.

Warning: this site is riddled with junk DNA

The newly relocated Friends of Charles Darwin website is riddled with junk DNA.

Thanks for the anomalies

Vestigial features in letterboxes and organisms.

Woodpeckers' toes and woodpeckers' kludges

I've been reading up about woodpeckers.

NEWSLETTER

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
Newsletter No. 12: ‘A comparatively free man’
A poorly Darwin writes to his cousin • links and book recommendations • the evolution of the eye

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