Evolution and the making of us.
Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
evolution
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?
Turtles of the air
What links sea-turtles, swifts, and railway viaducts? Plus some handy ornithological photo tips.
Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
The great Darwin fossil hunt
For my 50th birthday, a friend beyond compare organised a very special birthday present for the only self-confessed ‘Darwin groupie’ in her life.
A brush with the mob
In which the local jackdaws and rooks encounter an unusual foe.
Book review: ‘The Making of the Fittest’ by Sean B Carroll
DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.