The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

I'm rereading The Origin and, geekishly, really enjoying this sort of thing (from Morphology , Chapter XIV): Most physiologists be...

New Scientist reports that 'dancing' Volvox algae can ' waltz ' and ' minuet '. [1] It's another reminde...

Rather than being morally subversive, as his Christian critics claim, Darwin's achievement was morally grounded. Rather than being a dis...

John Whitefield considers the woodpecker at the start of his Blogging 'The Origin' . Did Darwin know about the Woodpecker's fel...

Having proved men and brutes bodies on one type: almost superfluous to consider minds. [1] Almost but not quite: He who understands babo...

The brittlestar has an entire carapace pitted with optically tuned calcite crystals.[1] The photo is featured in a Darwin ' special ...

A crude sketch... ...with interesting antecedents inspires a tatoo , a sculpted vault , and maybe even (via a universal phylogenetic tree )...

...it is curiosity, scientific curiosity, that has delivered us genuine, testable knowledge of the world and contributed to our understandin...