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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.
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If everyone else is quote-mining Darwin, why shouldn’t I?
Darwin on the delights of English country walks.
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Nothing For any Purpose
Explanation of why the phrase ‘Nothing For any Purpose’ appears on the bottom of the Red Notebook blog’s sidebar.
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Hello, Malawi! 🇲🇼
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Malawi.
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Darwin has a go at the Catholic church
Fuelled, perhaps, by his hatred of slavery.
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Swallows feeding their young
Photos of a pair of swallows feeding their young on the power-line outside my house this evening.
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Darwin eats an excellent cat
As a former card-carrying member of the Glutton Club, Charles Darwin was pretty unsqueamish when it came to sampling strange flesh, but he did not at all relish the idea of eating calf foetus while travelling is South America. Fortunately, it turned out to be something decidedly more appetising: We did not reach the posta…
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How to get a large animal into a small boat
Specifically, a cow.
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Darwin performs a blind test… on some condors
…to see how well they can smell.
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The Falklands fox: foolish dog of the south
Concerning Darwin’s dealings with this tragic creature.
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Reading Darwin’s first masterpiece
It’s like confessing a murder. I have been a self-confessed ‘Darwin groupie’ for almost a quarter of a century, yet, until this year, I had never read what is supposed to be his most accessible book, ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’.
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Ethereal nature
In which I rather naively try to photograph bats in my back garden.
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Who says there are no such things as missing links?
What do you buy for the complete Darwin groupie? My friend Bill certainly knew.