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intelligent design in indonesiaI thought either of you might be interested in this recently re-posted article of mine on Darwin and anti-Darwinism etc in Indonesia.roger malina added 5 weeks ago
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Homo religiosus - The Natural History of ReligionThere are still many people around who claim an inevitable enmity between science and religions. But in the last years, scientists from different fields and backgrounds started to explore religiosity (here defined as behavior toward supernatural agents) from the perspective of evolutionary ...
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Announcements - The Selfish Genius: How Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's LegacyBilled as a much-needed corrective of famous evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins' highly popular neo-Darwinist theories. By Fern Elsdon-Baker – Head of the British Council's Darwin Now International Project.
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Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadowGeorge Beccaloni, a 41-year-old British evolutionary biologist with London's Natural History Museum, is on a quest to return Alfred Russell Wallace to what he sees as his rightful place in history. He and Fred Langford Edwards, a British artist making an audiovisual project about Wallace, are ...
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art and darwin colloquium marseille france october 2009October 22/23/24 Colloquium organized by MIM and in partnership with IMéRA, LEONARDO/Olats, Alphabetville and ZINC-ECM Since its publication, Darwin's Origin of the Species, has been widely debated in its cultural context. In this colloquium we wish to re examine cultural activity and the ...roger malina added 5 months ago -
Science Weekly podcast: Charles Darwin - man of lettersGillian Beer, former professor of literature at Cambridge University, describes the breadth of Darwin's literary taste as revealed in the exhaustive reading lists he kept from the late 1830s to 1858.
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Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, at the Fitzwilliam Museum - review - TelegraphA magisterial survey of art and the science of evolution leaves Richard Dorment breathless in admiration .
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Lesbian albatrosses and bisexual bonobos have last laugh on Darwin - Times OnlineCharles Darwin argued that sexual preferences can shape the progress of evolution, creating displays, such as the peacock’s tail, that are inexplicable by natural selection alone. It’s safe to say, however, that he did not anticipate the lesbian albatrosses of Hawaii. Nor bisexual bonobos. Let ...
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Darwin-For 21 Years He Kept His Theory SecretThis exhibition at the Great Lakes Science Center goes back to the beginning and examines how Darwin’s groundbreaking ideas took shape. On view during the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, this exhibition offers a collection of specimens, artifacts, manuscripts and memorabilia ...
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Scientist's lost letters from DarwinFORGOTTEN letters from one of Britain's greatest scientists show he was penpals with Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday. Thousands of his letters have been donated to Manchester's famous John Rylands Library after being hidden away for more than a century. The collection includes 30 letters ...
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