Saturday, June 27, 2009

David Hume's influence on Charles Darwin

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As a result of helping my son Charlie with his homework, I have just (re-)read David Hume 's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , whi...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Emma Darwin's poignant diary entry

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I am still slowly but surely working away on a paper debunking the myth that Annie Darwin's death had anything to do with Charles Darwin...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Please help Darwin's medical students URGENTLY! #2

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This week for the second time (see earlier posting) I have been supervising a student-selected activity entitled "The Darwins, Evolutio...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The amazing power of Darwinite

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You remember Superman and how he suddenly lost all his powers in the presence of the element kryptonite?  Well, I am beginning to wonder if...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

In The Light of Evolution III

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The current early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences of the USA has just been released and is chock full of ar...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

New review of The Rough Guide to Evolution

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Fyrefly has just posted a review of The Rough Guide to Evolution  here. Generally highly positive, although Fyrefly doesn't like the wa...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938): greatest trial lawyer of all time

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The Guardian today features a piece by Donald McRae entitled The Great Defender , which details the remarkable courtroom skills of Clarence ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Darwin podcasts from the Fitzwilliam Museum

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The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ( which Darwin frequented ), is next week launching an exhibition, Endless Forms , to celebrate the Dar...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Latest news from Simon Singh

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For those of you interested in Simon Singh's struggle with the British Chiropractic Association and the English legal system, Simon has ...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Darwin, the "Missing Link" and raucous students

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There has been much talk in the blogosphere about the hyping up of Darwinius as a "missing link" (summarised here by Carl Zimmer ...
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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...