Writing tagged: ‘charles darwin’
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Happy Norman Day!
It’s my dad’s 74th birthday.
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Steve Jones gets it wrong
“Can we please forget about Charles Darwin?” says the geneticist.
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One long celebration
On ‘Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life’ by Sir David Attenborough.
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Darwin’s spec’s
Photograph shows Darwin’s spectacles.
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15-Sep-1832: Gauchess
On 15th September 1832, Charles Darwin’s legendary powers of observation temporarily let him down.
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Dead trees
Letter to New Scientist re. their ‘Darwin was wrong’ cover.
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Hands off our tree!
Why Darwin’s metaphor of an evolutionary tree is good enough.
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Darwin gets grumpy
Darwin’s correspondence: the best way we have of getting inside the great man’s head.
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Darwin disappointed by U.S. president’s address
…the president in question being Darwin’s twin, Abraham Lincoln.
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Not exactly a toothy grin
Charles Darwin smiles!
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As Darwin so famously said…
In which I write a letter to an Observer journalist, asking for the original source of a Darwin quote.
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07-Aug-1838: Darwin takes the train
On 7th August 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.