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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.
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185 years ago today…
On 22nd May, 1826, His Majesty’s Ship ‘Beagle’ set sail from Plymouth on a surveying voyage to South America.
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Hello, Bolivia! 🇧🇴
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Bolivia.
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Hello, Saudi Arabia! 🇸🇦
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Saudi Arabia.
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Ruskin’s aesthetic taxonomy
On the intriguing and rather barmy plant taxonomy suggested by the Nineteenth Century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.
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Boring the pants off people about Darwin
In which I respond to John S Wilkins’ post ‘Darwin Day: Enough already’.
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Now we are 3,000
The Friends of Charles Darwin have their 3,000th member.
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06-Mar-1860: Darwin on how to read ‘On the Origin of Species’
On 6th March 1860, Charles Darwin advised a scientist he correctly believed to be sceptical of his views how to go about reading ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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The Darwin Bicentennial Oak, 2 years on
Two years ago today, to mark Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden. Having survived two unusually harsh Yorkshire winters, here is how the oak looks today.
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Getting to know Charles Darwin in person
Forget the biographies. Forget the published works. If you really want to get to know Charles Darwin in person, you need to read his correspondence.
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Serendipitous juxtaposition
Two items just came up one after the other on my RSS reader. Their juxtaposition pleased me.
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People want to see the Beagle
The Beagle Project’s Karen James on this week’s Guardian Science Podcast.
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How the wheatear got its name
…Including my mum’s incorrect etymology.