Thursday, August 7, 2008

International E.coli Alliance conference

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I promised I would give some publicity to this poorly advertised meeting of the International E. coli Alliance, which is still open to appl...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

A few comments from van Wyhe on the Dawkins show

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I managed to make contact with John van Wyhe today and he is even less tolerant of the errors in the Dawkins show than I am! Here is what he...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Audiobooks: Beagle, Origin, Dawkins and Darwin

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Given the current interest in Dawkins' latest series on Darwin, it is worth noting that Dawkins had recorded a five-hour-long abridged v...

Darwinian myths and Cartesian doubt

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Ryan Gregory left this comment on my earlier post about Dawkins and Darwin's delay: I enjoyed the post, and in general I agree. The ...
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Did Dawkins get it wrong on Darwin’s delay?

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Last night I watched Dawkins on Darwin on Channel 4 , in the first of his three part series The Genius of Charles Darwin. It strikes me as...
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Sunday, August 3, 2008

We come from monkeys!!

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A week or so ago, before I had my own blog, I tried to comment on this interesting post from John Wilkins on his blog Evolving Thoughts: W...

The Beagle's puzzling wiggle

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I see that Karen James over on the Beagle Project Blog has been drawing up a new map of Darwin's Beagle voyage . We have a map of the vo...
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Rough Guide to Videogames: an evolutionary perspective

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Another Rough Guide is out this week: The Rough Guide to Videogames . And, as you might expect, a few weeks ago one of the authors, Kate Be...
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Ginger genetics

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On Friday my attention was drawn to this short film on the advantages and disadvantages of being ginger, made by Helen Cooper (one of my ...
Friday, August 1, 2008

Exciting stuff from the BBC for the Darwin bicentenary

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Andrew Marr , the British political journalist who championed Darwin in the Greatest Britons series... Here is a snippet from the programme...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Religious polymorphism: blame it on the parastites?

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In the book, I blame parasites for pornography, in that we wouldn't need sex if parasites were not driving genetic diversity. But for an...

Could life play fairy chess?

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[This is a snippet from the cutting room floor of the Rough Guide to Evolution, rejected by the editors for being too long and too technical...

Watch out for Dawkins on Darwin on Channel 4 on Monday

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The Genius Of Charles Darwin Monday 04 August  8:00pm -  9:00pm  Channel 4 Richard Dawkins presents a guide to Charles Darwin and his revolu...
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Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

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Just as I finished the last post a link to this remarkable paper arrived in my inbox: Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An e...

Language and life: from evolution to Esperanto

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Yesterday my wife was searching for sites that mention Darwin, Esperanto and Klingon and sent me some links she found: she does that kind of...
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