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Darwin Online: Online Variorum of Darwin's Origin of Species
New variorum ed of 6 Brit editions of 's Origin of Species, presents every change made:
histsci  evolution  Darwin  from twitter_favs
may 2011 by citizenk
Head & eye, from Ig Nobel Prize winners
Two Ig Nobel Prize winners have new books out about the evolution of the human body, or portions thereof.

Daniel Lieberman (2009 prize in physics for analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over)’s new book is The Evolution of the Human Head, ISBN 978-0674046368.

Ivan Schwab‘s (2006 prize in ornithology for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches) somewhat-soon-(November)-to-be-published book is Evolution’s Witness: How the Eye Evolved, ISBN 9780195369748. (Thanks to investigator Sip Siperstein for bringing this to our attention.)
Arts_and_science  Ig_Nobel  News_about_research  book  evolution  eye  Ig_Nobel_head  from google
april 2011 by citizenk
Evolution: A Game Of Chance? : Observations of a Nerd
40 ans après, c'est toujours "le hasard et la nécessité" de Monod RT : a game of chance?
#Evolution  #finalisme  Evolution  finalisme  from twitter
november 2010 by citizenk
Purpose Coming to a Head - THE BOX MOVE
Responses from the intellectual, literary & political circles of the time to 's Origin:
histsci  evolution  Darwin  from twitter_favs
july 2010 by citizenk
On the Origin of Species
RT Prominent scientists & historians of annotate fave passages in ’s Origin:
histsci  science  evolution  Darwin  from twitter_favs
july 2010 by citizenk
Evolution | Watch Free Documentary Online
RT : Entire PBS 'Evolution' series is available to watch online for free:
#evolution  evolution  from twitter
march 2010 by citizenk
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Darwin 200: The Galapagos Islands
Two hundred years on from the birth of Charles Darwin, our science correspondent David Shukman travels to the Galapagos Islands where the great 19th Century figure made observations critical to his theory of evolution.
darwin  darwin200  article  evolution  celebration  science  biology  galapagos 
february 2009 by citizenk
BBC NEWS | UK | In pictures: Stamps honour Darwin
A series of stamps is to go on sale commemorating the British scientist Charles Darwin, 150 years after the publication of his seminal work on evolutionary theory - On the Origin of the Species.
darwin  darwin200  article  evolution  celebration  science  biology  stamps  philately 
february 2009 by citizenk
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | At home with Darwin... 200 years on
Charles Darwin's home, Down House , in Kent, is set to reopen to the public this week with a new permanent exhibition marking the bicentenary of his birth.
darwin  darwin200  article  evolution  celebration  science  biology  down  downhouse 
february 2009 by citizenk
Commémoration du bicentenaire de la naissance de Charles Darwin, le 12 février 1809 - swissinfo
L'année 2009 est l'occasion de commémorer le bicentenaire de la naissance de Charles Darwin - né le 12 février 1809 - et les 150 ans de L'Origine des espèces. De quoi rendre hommage à sa démarche scientifique, selon Daniel Cherix, conservateur du musée de zoologie de Lausanne.
darwin  darwin200  article  evolution  celebration  science  biology 
february 2009 by citizenk
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New meat-eating dinosaur unveiled
Fossils of a massive dinosaur unearthed a decade ago in the Republic of Niger, Africa, have been recognised as belonging to a new species.
animals  dinosaurs  evolution  history  paleontology  science 
december 2007 by citizenk
Richard Dawkins, Dawkins and God, Dawkins 'God Delusion,' Richard Dawkins and science -- Beliefnet.com
I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to dispro
dawkins  evolution  religion  atheism 
november 2006 by citizenk
Four-finned Japanese dolphin an evolutionary throwback, researchers say - MSN-Mainichi Daily News
A bottlenose dolphin captured last month off western Japan has an extra set of fins, providing further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once had four legs and lived on land
dolphins  evolution  nature  animals  science  cetaceans 
november 2006 by citizenk
St. Paul Pioneer Press | 10/03/2006 | War on evolution has a price
"How can you teach biotechnology in this country when you don't even accept evolution?"
biology  evolution  article  opinion  creationism  usa 
october 2006 by citizenk
news @ nature.com - Will the hobbit argument ever be resolved? - Debate over tiny human's evolutionary status is set to rage on.
The dispute over the bones of Homo floresiensis has involved allegations of name-calling, nationalistic motives, and wilfully damaging specimens. One camp insists that the tiny inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores were a unique species; the othe
evolution  science  human  debate 
august 2006 by citizenk
Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
Two archaeologists are challenging what many experts consider to be the basic assumption of human migration—that humankind arose in Africa and spread over the globe from there.
science  archeology  article  evolution  asia  africa 
january 2006 by citizenk
Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
light skin arose independently at least twice in human evolution
science  evolution  genetics  research  news 
december 2005 by citizenk
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