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  • Hello, Senegal! 🇸🇳

    Hello, Senegal! 🇸🇳

    The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Senegal.

  • Hello, Iraq! 🇮🇶

    Hello, Iraq! 🇮🇶

    The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Iraq.

  • We receive feedback

    We receive feedback

    The latest creationist comment amused me so much that I thought I would give it a blog post all of its own.

  • Three old maps

    Three old maps

    Photographs of three wonderful seventeenth-century maps in the Doge’s Palace museum, Venice.

  • The Darwin bicentennial oak, 6 years on

    The Darwin bicentennial oak, 6 years on

    Six years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden.

  • Charles Darwin on the family tree of languages

    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.

  • Darwin & Fitzroy play, Reading

    Darwin & Fitzroy play, Reading

    Darwin groupies in or near Reading in Berkshire this coming week might like to check out the new play, Darwin & Fitzroy, by Juliet Aykroyd.

  • PZ Myers in God's Own County

    PZ Myers in God’s Own County

    The Friends of Charles Darwin’s home town was Pharyngulated last night, when PZ Myers paid a visit to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.

  • PZ Myers goes to church

    PZ Myers goes to church

    Photo of PZ Myers in a church in Hebden Bridge yesterday.

  • Golf: the Darwin connection

    Golf: the Darwin connection

    As we all know, absolutely everything has a Charles Darwin connection. As golf’s 143rd Open Championship tees off in my native Wirral, I find evidence of its Darwin connection on display.

  • Nigel Longhurst (1954–2014)

    Nigel Longhurst (1954–2014)

    I am sad to report that my good friend and Friends of Charles Darwin co-founder, Nigel Longhurst, died on 5th June.

  • Bookshelf triage

    Bookshelf triage

    Over on my personal website, I’ve just published a new piece about trying to free up space on my over-full bookshelves. You shouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that Charles Darwin is mostly to blame.