Tuesday, November 4, 2008

For any Americans undecided how to vote...

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Darwin's Boulders

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A geologist colleague has just brought to my attention this interesting article in Geoscientist that describes Darwin's field trip to W...
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Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Book is Here!

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A couple of days ago I returned from a short holiday in Sicily to discover five advance copies of The Rough Guide to Evolution in the post! ...
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Of figs and fusions: Darwin's great tree of life rehabilitated?

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In one of his notebooks, Darwin sketched an iconic figure of the tree of life, prefaced by a pregnant "I Think" (see adjacent imag...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Even Koonin nods

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Classicists have a turn of phrase, "Even Homer Nods". The phrase originates from the Roman poet Horace ( et idem indignor quandoq...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Is America ready for a creationist president?

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That's a rhetorical question, as it looks like the answer is going to be no! But anyone comforted by the fact that neither presidential ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

2009, Tom Paine's Remains and Darwin

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Prompted by Carl Zimmer's recent posting on Paine and Washington's experiment with marsh gas, I have finally gotten around to deali...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Dodgy Darwinian analogies involving hedge funds

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And now evolution even features in the Financial Times , although the analogies between the Galapagos and hedge funds strike me as rather co...

Another snippet about the Darwin biog film Creation

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See " My Week " by Toby Jones writing in the Independent on his role as Huxley in the forthcoming film Creation . Looks like it is...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Darwin's Second Life

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During the completion of The Rough Guide to Evolution, the editor waggishly added his own title to the section on Artificial Life: "Get...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Icons of evolution: McCain as missing link

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My first thought when I saw the image at the top of this entry, which is in all the papers and all over the Internet is just how reminiscent...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Silly but fun KNTV song and show on Darwin

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As I write, the UK TV Channel 4 is broadcasting an amusing programme on Charles Darwin as part of a 10-part series for children, KNTV Philos...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Evolution and Poverty: Great is our Sin

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Wednesday 15th October is Blog Action Day 2008 , with the theme of POVERTY. Although I have missed the boat according to Greenwich Mean Time...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The Beagles: Voyages, Death and Re-Birth

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Here is a modified early draft of a box that appears, much shortened, in the Rough Guide to Evolution ... The Beagles: Voyages, Death and Re...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Human evolution over or speeding up?

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"Compare and contrast..." goes the start of many an exam question. Well, in catching up on my reading of blogs and news media, I h...
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