Writing tagged: ‘neanderthals’
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Newsletter No. 16: Bonus links
Some good stuff there wasn’t space for in newsletter No. 16.
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Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
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Newsletter No. 13: ‘Some excellent news’
Some great news • How the internet is supposed to work • Darwin plays backgammon • Links and book reviews • a necessary owl
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Newsletter No. 8: ‘Reading for amusement’
Darwin reads Malthus • mass extinctions • earthworms • Gilbert White • Lonesome George • lichen • zebras • Neanderthals • life on Venus? • bats • book reviews • and more…
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Newsletter No. 6: ‘Building on a theory’
To mark Charles Darwin’s 211th birthday, some thoughts on his 1871 classic, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, an unlikely anecdote about a snail, plus all the usual book reviews and links to Darwin-related news stories.
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Discovery and adventure’
Marking the anniversary of Charles Darwin setting sail aboard HMS Beagle.
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Are you calling Neanderthal Man an idiot?
Thomas Henry Huxley on Neanderthal Man.