Writing tagged: ‘evolution’
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Book review: ‘The Diversity of Life’ by Edward O. Wilson
On our most valuable but least appreciated resource.
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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.
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Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
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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 • and more…
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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 • and more…
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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? • and more…
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Turtles of the air
What links sea-turtles, swifts, and railway viaducts? Plus some handy ornithological photo tips.
