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Darwin memoriam

Larry Moran posts a contemporary description of Darwin's funeral: "Charles Darwin died on this day in 1882."I didn't know that the American Ambassador was a pallbearer. Good for us!Tags: Darwinhistory...

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Creation review

John Wilkins saw the film Creation and enters a review, which I link because it's thoughtful and balanced: I am very pleasantly surprised how well it worked as a film, as well as how effectively it...

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MythBusters Evolution

A rerun MythBusters tonight was a rejiggering of myths they'd already covered, titled "MythBusters Evolution". Here's how they started: JAMIE: So, MythBusters Evolution...does that mean we're going to...

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Quote: Darwin hides the ball

Darwin, writing in his Autobiography about natural selection: In October, 1838, that is, 15 months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, … it at once struck me that under these circumstances...

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Mailbag: Hiding balls

Re: "Darwin hides the ball":Just catching up on blog reading after summer holidays and came across your posting: Darwin Hides the Ball. For balance I suggest you read and post on the this article from...

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UW Darwin Day activities

The rest of this week is Darwin Day here at the University of Wisconsin. I have a bunch of local readers, and I want to make sure the word is out about all the activities, Thursday through Saturday....

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Darwin's Y

The Telegraph has done a puff piece about the Genographic testing of Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson. Last week I got to attend an incredible panel discussion that focused on the issue of genetic...

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Split lumps

The Friends of Darwin blog notes that the terms "lumpers" and "splitters" in taxonomy go back to Darwin's time. The example is a letter Darwin received from Hewett Cottrell Watson. A nice piece of...

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A trip to Darwin's home

Today I visited Down House, Charles Darwin's home southeast of London. Mark Pallen, my gracious host from the University of Birmingham, brought us to the house, where we met Randal Keynes. Also on the...

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White on books

The Browser has up an interview with paleoanthropologist Tim White, focused around his choice of five books to recommend: ("Tim White on prehistoric man"). A snippet of the interview: Why do you think...

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Darwin Day events, 2012

We have lots of biology events going on here for the Darwin Day celebration this week, with the theme of "Unnatural History". Here's the really cool poster, and a link to the schedule on the Crow...

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Darwiniana

Larry Moran posts a bit of Darwin history, focusing on a meeting with William Gladstone "Happy Birthday Charles Darwin". Our quiet, however, was broken a couple of days ago by Gladstone calling here.—I...

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Quote: Wallace on the distribution of beauty

In response to Darwin's claim that the British aristocracy has been made more beautiful "from pick of women", Alfred Russel Wallace replied (in a letter to Darwin written on 29 May 1864):I very much...

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Darwin's primate phylogeny

I'm doing some reading and ran across a 2009 post by Brian Switek ("Darwin, Ardi and the African apes"), who touched on a little-appreciated aspect of Darwin's conception of human relationships: Yet...

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Starting my descent through The Descent of Man: Introduction

I have a number of goals for 2013. Several of them will play out here on the weblog, a few others will lead to publications. A handful have more speculative outcomes, and we'll see how they turn out....

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Photo: Roe deer from the Sandwalk

I spent last Sunday at Down House, Darwin's home outside London. I was the first one out on the Sandwalk that morning -- I ran into the gardener on the way out -- and surprised a pair of roe deer in...

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Remembering Wallace

Jerry Coyne has a guest post by Andrew Berry recognizing the history of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-innovator of the concept of natural selection: "A guest post for Wallace Day". The reasons for...

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