An aesthetically pleasing volume, indicating how Darwin’s great work on evolution itself evolved.
Writing tagged: ‘origin of species’
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
Newsletter No. 2: ‘Writing with a dip pen’
Our second newsletter marks the 159th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’…
14-May-1856: Darwin starts writing his ‘big species book’
On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that, on the advice of his friend Charles Lyell, after almost 20 years exploring the subject, he had finally begun writing a ‘sketch’ of his ideas on species.
Attenborough reads Darwin
In celebration of his 90th birthday, the BBC has released a short video of Sir David Attenborough reading from the final paragraph of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin on the family tree of languages
In ‘On the Origin of Species’, Darwin hypothesises that the family tree of languages must closely reflect the family tree of the different races of mankind that speak them.
Book review: ‘Darwin's On the Origin of Species: a Modern Rendition’ by Daniel Duzdevich
Darwin copy-edited for the 21st century.
Darwin in plain English?
In which I attempt to rewrite the wonderful final paragraph of ‘On the Origin of Species’ using only the 1,000 most common English words.
Hats off to Tegetmeier!
Today marks the 196th anniversary of the birth of one of my favourite mini-heroes of science, W.B. Tegetmeier.
02-Jan-1860: Whewell sets the right tone
On 2nd January 1860, the mathematician, science historian, polymath, and coiner of the term ‘scientist’, William Whewell, wrote to Charles Darwin to acknowledge receipt of his copy of the first edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Ideal Darwin groupie Christmas present
Amusing note left for my partner Jen.
What do you mean, you've never read 'On the Origin of Species'?
If you consider yourself a Darwin groupie, or simply 'well-read', yet you still haven't read 'On the Origin of Species', why not make today's 150th anniversary of its publication the perfect excuse to start reading the damn thing?