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Newsletter No. 16: Bonus links

Some good stuff there wasn’t space for in newsletter No. 16.

Published 22-Dec-2022
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: aDNA, insectivorous plants, mammals, neanderthals, palaeoanthropology
‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.

Published 26-Oct-2022
Filed under: Reviews Genres: Evolution Tags: archaeology, neanderthals, reviews
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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

Published 08-Apr-2022
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: charles darwin, darwin correspondence project, darwin online, dinosaurs, galapagos islands, neanderthals, notebooks, owls
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus (1766–1834)

Newsletter No. 8: ‘Reading for amusement’

Darwin reads Malthus · mass extinctions · earthworms · Gilbert White · Lonesome George · lichen · zebras · Neanderthals · life on Venus? · bats · book reviews · and more…

Published 28-Sep-2020
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: astrobiology, bats, charles darwin, earthworms, galapagos islands, gilbert white, mass extinctions, natural selection, neanderthals, podcasts, stephen jay gould, thomas malthus, tortoises
Snail

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.

Published 12-Feb-2020
Filed under: Newsletters Tags: charles darwin, descent of man, dinosaurs, evolution, expression of emotions, galapagos islands, neanderthals, origin of species, sexual selection

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)

Are you calling Neanderthal Man an idiot?

Thomas Henry Huxley on Neanderthal Man.

Published 17-Jan-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: flores man, homo floresiensis, microcephaly, neanderthals, thomas henry huxley

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