Thursday, July 28, 2011

Survival of the aptest: evolutionary turns of phrase

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The terms adaptation and evolution pre-date Darwin. The term “adapt” comes from the Latin adaptare, to make fit. William Paley used the term...

Darwin’s captain: Robert FitzRoy

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Robert FitzRoy (1805–65) entered the Royal Navy at age thirteen and, after passing exams with full marks, moved quickly up the ranks. In 18...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Don't let Rough Guides let The Rough Guide to Evolution go out of print!

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Is it possible to be very happy and very disappointed at the same time? That is about how I am feeling right now!! Why am I happy? Well, as ...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Another five star review

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Grand and Glorious Guide to Evolution , By John Kwok (New York, NY USA) Why is evolution one of the most important ide...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Charles Darwin senior: cause of death and place of burial

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Following up from on my previous post , a picture is now available of Charles Darwin senior's last resting place, thanks to Kim Traynor ...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Last resting place of Charles Darwin rediscovered

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OK, so you are wondering what I am going on about with that title, as we all know that Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the famous naturalist and...

A five-star review

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This from Howard Kornberg via the Amazon.co.uk site: 5.0 out of 5 stars Everything Evolutionary , 6 May 2009 By Howard Kornstein (UK) - Se...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The phoenix rises from the ashes, the coelacanth from the ocean!

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Apologies, dear reader. This blog has been dormant for over a year... There were a couple of reasons for this I felt the need to re-focus my...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Rap Guides to Aquatic Biology

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Here are two biological takes on Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat" ( on YouTube ) that might amuse you. The first parodies ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Origin of Species: new online variorum

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Yesterday, the world celebrated the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species . But it is worth stressing that there was ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

First thoughts on "Creation"

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Yesterday afternoon, I went to see " Creation ", the new film out centred on Charles Darwin's relationships with his wife and ...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The evolution of the Origin revisualised

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A few years back, Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo , both textual scholars, came to work here in Birmingham. They, along with local Ne...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

I have outsold my advance!

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Just a brief note to report the good news that I have outsold the advance against royalties that I was given for my book, The Rough Guide to...
Sunday, September 6, 2009

The Darwin Song Project

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I have to confess that there is not much folk music in my iTunes library, but last week my copy of the Darwin Song Project CD arrived. And ...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Lamarck, Darwin and the Tree of Life

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There has been some interesting discussion in the blogosphere as to whether Lamarck beat Darwin to the Tree of Life metaphor: http://science...