Writing tagged: ‘pollination’
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Newsletter No. 22: ‘I ought to stick to Orchids’
Darwin on Abraham Lincoln • Darwin’s photograph collection • Alfred Russel Wallace • neural fossils • Punctuated Equilibrium at 50 • randomness in evolution • sexual selection and speciation • pollen wars • book update • and more…
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Newsletter No. 20: ‘All observation must be for or against some view…’
Darwin’s primroses destroyed! • Beagle specimens unearthed • cross-pollination • birds’ tree-of-life • beetles • seaweed • male mammals not so big after all • Frans de Waal • butterfly mimicry • William Buckland • book recommendation • another research rabbit hole!
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Newsletter No. 18: ‘Unnecessary irreligious deductions’
Darwin versus Mivart, plus Darwin-related links and book recommendations.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11 • 1863’
Six months of illness, and lots of botany.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 10 • 1862’
Darwin grows in confidence.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 9 • 1861’
Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
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Newsletter No. 15: ‘Darwinian associations’
…everything has a Darwin connection!
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Newsletter No. 11: ‘Give that man a medal!’
A contentious gong • loads of links • book recommendations • Alfred Russel Wallace’s missing ‘L‘ • and more…