Sunday, September 25, 2011

Live tweets from Great Read at Birmingham opening event

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Here are the live tweets from Great Read at Birmingham opening event, sorted from earliest to latest 66. mjpallen : @mjpallen @greatreadatb...

Darwin's Shrewsbury

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Brief tour of Darwin sights in Shrewsbury for speakers at Great Read at Birmingham initiative. Sights include Darwin shopping centre, staine...

Visiting Down House with Randal Keynes

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I have now received two VIP tours of Down House with Randal Keynes (Darwin's great-great-grandson) as tour guide. Randal's mellifluo...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Ken Miller at the opening Great Read at Birmingham event

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The Evolution Wars: Why they continue, Why they matter, by Ken Miller Ken Miller speaking at the opening event of the Great Read at Birmingh...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Adam Tickell on Thomas Henry Huxley at Great Read at Birmingham event

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Professor Adam Tickell , PVC for Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Birmingham , speaking at the launch of the Great Read at Bir...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Great Read at Birmingham

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This week, all the new undergraduates at the University of Birmingham (~6000 students) will receive a copy of the same book in their Welcome...

Rough Guide to Evolution now available on Kindle and as eBook

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Great news! The Rough Guide to Evolution is now available to buy as a Kindle eBook here: http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Guide-Evolution-ebook/d...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The evolution of biblical manuscripts

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In an ironic twist of fate that might infuriate creationist fundamentalist Christians, evolutionary thinking dominates scholarly studies of ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Some Darwinian poetry to make you smile

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Charles Darwin's grandfather Eramus Darwin was a brilliant but seriously bonkers chap--a kind of 18th Century English Rasta. You can re...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Mary Anning: Fossil hunter extraordinaire

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Anyone off to Lyme Regis for their holidays should spare a thought for Mary Anning (1799-1847), who hailed from this English coastal town....

Galton or Weismann first to continuity of the germ-plasm?

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While researching the previous post, my curiosity was piqued over a comment by Frank Darwin about his relative Francis Galton (who BTW was...

Darwin: serial plagiarizer or revolutionary genius?

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Stephen Jay Gould once joked that “precursoritis" (or should it be " precursorism ") is the bane of historiography. Nonethe...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Minimum requirements for a PhD thesis

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I am getting tired of having to examine sub-standard PhD theses and then having to write the same old comments in the report on the thesis, ...
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...