Monday, December 29, 2008

Darwin: a new anniversary and an old atheism

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The week before Christmas I was interviewed on the phone by Madeleine Bunting , who works as a journalist for the British broadsheet newspap...
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Friday, December 26, 2008

RGE New Year Quiz and competition

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In line with the festive spirit and to help rouse you from the intellectual torpor induced by too much food and drink, I have devised a New ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

"Charles and Emma" would be illegal in many parts of the USA

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Just read this piece from Wired Science on this editorial in Public Library of Science Biology. It seems that marriages between first cous...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Darwin and evolution in the Black Country (and back in the USSR)

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On Saturday my wife banished me from the house for the day while she got things ready for Christmas, so I took the children on a tour of Dar...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Yes, it looks like you can get The Rough Guide to Evolution in time for Christmas!

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Just received this e-mail from Amazon.co.uk Dear Customer, We wanted to give you an update on the status of your order #026-2438100-5325966....
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Steve Jones (and I) on Stephen Jay Gould

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I guess I have to confess that the course of my life would not have been the same without Stephen Jay Gould. My lifelong interest in Darwin ...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Annie Darwin and Darwin's loss of faith: it ain't necessarily so!

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I have just read this article from the Independent by Darwin's great-great-grand-daughter, Ruth Padel . I look forward to Ruth's for...
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New site: Species of Origin

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Just came across this site, The Species of Origin , which decribes itself as "a live site that actively invites you to contribute as we...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish

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It seems to be a fact of modern life that however hard you look for all the typos in a thesis, for all the proof-of-principle references tha...
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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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