Wednesday, May 27, 2009

From the Origin of Species to the origin of infection

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This article has just appeared in a special Darwin 200 issue of Microbiology Today , where you can obtain a PDF of this piece and much more...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

The Origin of Species as an organism: census, taxonomy and evolution

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Last Friday, John van Wyhe, creator of Darwin Online, visited me in Birmingham. He gave a nice seminar on D arwin's Delay (or lack of i...
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Very gradual change we can believe in

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I just came across this fantastic poster/T-shirt image, created by Mike Rosulek at the University of Illinois. Lyell's gradualism meets ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Rough Guide to Evolution in the Malvern Gazette

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My local newspaper, the Malvern Gazette are running a story this week on The Rough Guide to Evolution , complete with my ugly mug. You can p...
Friday, May 8, 2009

The Wire, the Darwins, re-ups and the N word

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OK, confession time! After the Darwin bicentenary, even as a hardened Darwin fan, I had had my fill of darwinizing*, at least for a while. A...
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Humpty dumpty judge sides with BCA in Singh hearing

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Bad news, I am afraid, from the courtroom in the BCA versus Simon Singh case (see yesterday's post ). The Judge, emulating Humpty Dumpty...

Interesting post on protein folding and evolution

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A few months back, John Farrell , a Catholic writer and producer working in Boston, approached me, concerned over a creationist argument abo...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

It's not just creationists who are nutty: Simon Singh versus non-evidence-based nonsense from the British Chiropractic Association

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I would like to think that readers of this blog, and anyone who has read my book, are happy to agree that creationism is, in the words of Ba...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Talk: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Evolution

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A talk by Dr Chris Smith: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Evolution Speaker: Dr Chris Smith Date: Thursday 7 May Time: 7....

Convergent evolution featuring The Apprentice and The Origin

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UK readers who watched last night's edition of the cult TV show The Apprentice might be interested to see life imitating art, or conv...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Obama's stirring speech on science skirts around the "e word"

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Barack Obama gave a stirring speech on the place of science in the American dream yesterday, while addressing the US National Academy of Sci...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Darwin's Kampf

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Today's issue of Nature contains an interesting letter from Professor Ulrich Kutschera , in which he points out that Darwin's interp...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Darwin, Pasteur, their sleep among the immortals and the need to dig back to primary sources

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short piece for the magazine Microbiology Today , entitled Darwin; from the origin of species to the origin ...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

15 Evolutionary Gems from Nature magazine

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Nature magazine has created a neat resource entitled 15 Evolutionary Gems , which lists papers published by the journal that exemplify the ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Darwin in the house: Baba Brinkman in the Vancouver Evolution Festival

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Baba Brinkman, creator of the Rap Guide to Evolution is featured this week in an article entitled "Darwin in the House" in The Van...