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Even though I am only really photogenic in person, I decided I ought to post a photo of what I am wearing today on Darwin Day. It’s by a relatively unknown young designer named, um, me. Available here. [...] Happy Darwin Day! By which I mean, Remember one of the greatest scientists who ever lived AND all the accomplishments of the thousands of scientists who have come after him and made modern evolutionary biology the great success that it is. To me, this is not unlike celebrating nation-founding anniversaries (July 4 in the [...] Cosmos Magazine has a series on Darwin… Darwin at 200: Special Report Darwin at 200: a timeline Darwin at 200: Saluting the founder of evolutionary theory Darwin at 200: Darwin’s natural laboratory Father of evolution goes online Famous Darwin quotes wrong, says scholar Those of you who have read Darwin will know that he had a strong interest in domestication and artificial selection. People have argued about how important this was in his development of the idea of natural selection, but there is no doubt that it was at least relevant in his explanation of the mechanism. [...] It’s great to know that Jerry Coyne has a blog — I certainly plan to read it and you should too. However, I have to confess that I tend not to agree with him on a lot of points. His criticism of evo-devo, his opinion that punctuated equilibria is saltationist, and his apparent belief [...] As you may know, I have be (re-)reading the On the Origin of Species as part of a small discussion group made up of students from my most recent evolution course. I am always struck by how much Darwin knew, not only in terms of his enormous collation of specific facts, but also of [...] Today’s Sunday Edition on CBC was about Darwin. Guests included Brian Alters, Ken Miller, and Ruth Padel. (Padel is Darwin’s great-great-granddaughter and has a book entitled Darwin: A Life in Poems). A schedule of the program is available here. The podcast is not up yet, but when it is, it will be [...] Today’s Quirks and Quarks on CBC was about Darwin — with David Quammen, Steve Jones, and Olivia Judson — hear here. Chapter 3 – Struggle for Existence This is the chapter in which Darwin really picks things up. Whereas the first two may have been more like, in Darwin’s own words, “a dry list of facts”, this one is written in a very passionate tone. Having established that individuals vary both in domesticated breeds and [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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