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Writing tagged: ‘evolution’
Book review: ‘Sexual Selection’ by Marlene Zuk & Leigh W. Simmons
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin finally sets out to enlighten us on our origins.
Book review: ‘Darwin’ by Jonathan Howard
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘Evolution’ by Brian & Deborah Charlesworth
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
Newsletter No. 12: ‘Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs’
Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall
Newsletter No. 9: ‘Teaser or spoiler?’
On the Moor · Zanzibar · container ships · giant ground sloth · Barry Lopez · indigenous people · Cambrian Explosion · Little Toller · Iain Sinclair
Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
How predictable is evolution?
Newsletter No. 4: ‘Paint to pufferfish’
Robert Macfarlane · Hilary Mantel · Martha Sprackland · Viking wool · Charles Darwin's reading habits · human evolution · praying to Elrond · drawing · making ink · Rebecca Solnit · insectivorous plants · do pufferfish hold their breath?