Monday, November 24, 2008

The Charles Darwin Genome Project

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Now I am probably put two and two together and making five, but having read in the last few days that: the mammoth genome has been sequenced...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Darwins talking dirty

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As a follow-up to my earlier post on Charles Darwin's smelly rude bits, readers might be interested to see that this week Emma Darwin h...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Rough Guide to Evolution mentioned in the journal Nature

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Nature , a journal founded with help from Darwin's associates Huxley and Hooker, has this week run a special feature on Darwin200, the...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Suzi Quatro's "Hey Charly!": the song for the Darwin bicentenary!

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A while back I started a thread on the ultimate Darwin concept album: http://roughguidetoevolution.blogspot.com/2008/08/in-search-of-ultimat...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Charles Darwin - a different viewpoint. Lecture at Thinktank Birmingham

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Just picked up this information about a lecture in Birmingham: Most people who have heard of Charles Darwin tend to associate him only with ...
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The hummingbird on the ten pound note

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Not quite sure why Steve Jones is getting quite so upset about the humming bird on the British ten pound note . His complaint is that '...
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Monday, November 17, 2008

Bing Crosby name-drops Darwin

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I am grateful to Jerry Pritchard for bringing this clip to my attention, in which Bing Crosby name-drops Darwin in the film High Society !

Darwin’s botanists: Henslow and Hooker

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One of the problems with writing The Rough Guide to Evolution was that trying to get everything that I wanted to say about evolution into 3...
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The Press Release!

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The Press Release for The Rough Guide to Evolution is now available as a PDF on the Rough Guides website. The press release includes a li...
Saturday, November 8, 2008

Darwin's pallbearer speaking in Birmingham on democracy

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Given current opposition to Darwin in much of the United States, it is surprising to discover that among the pallbearers at Darwin's fun...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Evolution, education and the University of Birmingham

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The Guardian video podcast Teachers TV has just released an interesting documentary The creationism controversy in the classroom on the tea...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

First African-American president, first African genome

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Hot on the heels of the election of the first African-American president comes news in today's Nature of the first human genome sequence...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

From Darwin and Lincoln to Obama: Freedom Evolves!

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Darwin’s grandfathers, Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood , were linked through the Lunar Society of Birmingham to Founding Fathers, Frank...

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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