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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.
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Hello, United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 & Uganda 🇺🇬!
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first members from the United Arab Emirates, and Uganda!
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Hello, Senegal! 🇸🇳
The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Senegal.
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Hello, Iraq! 🇮🇶
The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Iraq.
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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.
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Three old maps
Photographs of three wonderful seventeenth-century maps in the Doge’s Palace museum, Venice.
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The Darwin bicentennial oak, 6 years on
Six years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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PZ Myers goes to church
Photo of PZ Myers in a church in Hebden Bridge yesterday.
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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.
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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.