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Natural Selection Day
Today is the 153rd anniversary of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Forget Darwin’s birthday (12 February 1809) or the publication of On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859). The theory...
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Darwin and Melville in the Galapagos
A little preview from a forthcoming Darwin Day essay on The Voyage of the Beagle, here are the contrasting styles of Darwin and Melville in their descriptions of the Galapagos. Melville’s imagery is...
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Science Tourist: Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge
I’ve lived in Cambridge, UK, for the past three years. There are many things I don’t like about Cambridge (and I’m leaving soon) but that only makes me more appreciative of the few places I do like...
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The Art of Science: Wallace’s Flying Frog
Last week, the Natural History Museum in London unveiled a digital archive of the letters of 19th century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin, of evolution by...
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Duly noted, Charles. Duly noted.
But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much – Charles Darwin From The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 2: 1837-1843 via Maria Popova.
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Sunday Poem: Science and doubt on the naked shingles of the world
Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ For at least a millennium in the West, Christianity was the dominant public perspective on how the world operates. That is no longer true. In our culture, science now...
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Darwin’s Manuscripts
UPDATE 2014-11-25 6:28AM (ET): Grant Young, Head of Digital Content at Cambridge University Library commented to let us know where the Darwin manuscripts stand legally. The unpublished manuscripts...
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Galapagos Islands
Did you figure out the answers to last week’s quiz? They’re all the way at the bottom of this post, but I’m sure you figured out that answer A was the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands were...
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Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
“Beached!” by James Pegrum, based on drawing by Conrad Martens (1834) & engraving by Thomas Landseer (1838) (All Rights Reserved; Used With Permission) February 12th is the birthday of pioneering...
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