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The Origin of Species and the origin of species
2009 was the double celebration for evolutionary biologists, In February we markerd the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and in November we celberated the 150th anniversary of That Book’s...
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Charles Darwin and the Origin of Spouses
Happy Darwin Day everyone! Today would have been Charles Darwin’s 201st birthday so around the world geeks are celebrating, churches are standing up to creationism and at least a few biologists are...
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The End of Evolution …
… well, the end of Evolution 2010 anyway. The silence that you may very well have failed to notice around here over the last couple of weeks has come about because I’ve been away attending my very...
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The First New Zealanders and their rats
Crispin Jago has made a very cool thing, a periodic table of irrational nonsense. Rolling my eyes over the groups, wondering how people can believe some of these things, made me think about New...
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Just trying to put the punk back into punctured lung
I’m going to be spending the rest of my week keeping up with my real work. Neither science nor the internet have chosen to rest while I catch up with that, so there are lots of interesting things...
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Sunday Spinelessness – The Entomologist who invented Daylight Saving Time
Today marks the end of the Daylight Savings Time in New Zealand, so local readers will have had an extra hour at their disposal to sleep through, get more work done, or explain to their children that...
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Darwin and New Zealand
February the 12th is the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Across the world people will be marking the day by remembering Darwin the discoverer of evolution by natural selection, Darwin the...
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