mammals – The Friends of Charles Darwin

Newsletter No. 15: ‘Darwinian associations’

…everything has a Darwin connection!

A poorly Darwin writes to his cousin • links and book recommendations • the evolution of the eye

A contentious gong · loads of links · book recommendations · Alfred Russel Wallace’s missing ‘L‘

Stolen notebooks · DNA barcoding · butterflies · Mary Anning · flowers · cool videos · insects · snakes · mammalian evolution · book reviews

In which I rather naively try to photograph bats in my back garden.

This morning, I decided to watch the Ida documentary again, trying to imagine my reaction had I known nothing about the hype.

Darwinius fossil plays the sax shock!

I was delighted to see a couple of brown hares boxing in the field in front of my house this morning.

How kestrels track voles!

'Bizarre' new mammal discovered

…for which, read ‘giant ground sloth’ or ‘Megatherium’.