tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647542790969230221.post3416076135004054508..comments2023-10-02T03:29:53.174-07:00Comments on The Rough Guide to Evolution: The evolutionary tourist in EdinburghMark Pallenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911675151032525386noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647542790969230221.post-24024206712613072122008-12-19T11:37:00.000-08:002008-12-19T11:37:00.000-08:00For 'evolutionary tourists' interested in crossing...For 'evolutionary tourists' interested in crossing the 'pond', there will be a new Evolution exhibition (opening April 16, 2009), and Darwin memorabilia on display, and some excellent programming at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA..more at www.hmnh.harvard.eduBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126488548830769268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647542790969230221.post-14057890272668123702008-10-05T00:05:00.000-07:002008-10-05T00:05:00.000-07:00This is interesting. Are there any personal guides...This is interesting. Are there any personal guides carrying out such evolutionary route? That would be a very unique to discover Edinburgh.<BR/><BR/>http://www.OurExplorer.com<BR/>local guides, local wisdomwww.ourexplorer.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07857041750691140784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647542790969230221.post-26952949250601835592008-09-28T11:55:00.000-07:002008-09-28T11:55:00.000-07:00Of course! Edinburgh is one of the world's greates...Of course! Edinburgh is one of the world's greatest cities and the Scottish Enlightenment changed the world forever. Space was limited in the book, so the tourist guide got chopped, but there is a whole page on Darwin's time in Edinburgh and Hume and Smith both get mentions elsewhere in the book. Smith's invisible hand metaphor was an influence on Darwin's natural selection and Darwin read Hume on his return from the Beagle. <BR/><BR/>Plus Thomas Huxley wrote a biography of Hume.<BR/><BR/>And Erasmus Darwin trained in Edinburgh, as did Robert Darwin!<BR/><BR/>No shortage of connections to Darwin, evolution and rationalism!Mark Pallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06911675151032525386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647542790969230221.post-57391887349042254182008-09-28T11:21:00.000-07:002008-09-28T11:21:00.000-07:00The links to Darwin may be scanty, but here are lo...The links to Darwin may be scanty, but here are lots of reasons to visit Edinburgh for anyone interested in evolution, science, and learning. You mention Dolly the sheep. Other incredible developments from Edinburgh range from the medical e.g. development of anaesthesia, forensic science - which Conan Doyle made good use of in the Sherlock Holmes stories and of course the enlightenment with great figures such as David Hulme and Adam SmithJanet and Lenorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188379441331429113noreply@blogger.com