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First Page of Darwin's Origin of Species showing title of the book. By Fernando Venzano on Unsplash

The Idea that Changed the World: Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection l Blogpost

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November 24th is World Evolution Day. It is celebrated because a paper was published that changed scientific thinking completely. On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his work: On the Origin...

During the Darwin family's 1868 holiday in her Isle of Wight cottage, Julia Margaret Cameron took portraits showing the bushy beard Darwin grew between 1862 and 1866.

Podcast I Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection

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This is our Podcast on Darwin & Evolution by Natural Selection celebrating Darwin Day on February 12, and World Evolution Day on November 24.

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New fossil dating techniques change human evolution timeline

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New fossil dating techniques have been used that have changed the human evolution timeline from what we had previously thought.

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Evolution may not be as random as we thought

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Evolution may not be as random as we thought according to a new study that analysed the pangenome of a single bacterium.

A Gan's egg-eating snake that has swallowed a much larger egg relative to its size.

A little snake that can swallow a huge meal

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A little snake that can swallow a huge meal has been discovered in Africa. It can swallow prey much larger than its size due to its soft, stretchy mouth.

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Endless forms, most beautiful — Darwin and On the Origin of Species

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Charles Darwin's trip aboard the HMS Beagle helped him to understand the diversity of life on Earth & led to his theory of evolution via natural selection.

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10 amazing things we learned about our human ancestors in 2022

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10 amazing things we learned about our human ancestors in 2022 relating to evolution, human history and anthropology.

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The Y chromosome may slowly be disappearing but a new sex gene brings hope

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Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome, but a new sex gene discovery in spiny rats brings hope for humanity

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What was the key to the spread of plant life on land?

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YSE-led research has discovered the answer to a 100-year-old paleontology mystery — how early plants emerged from their watery habitats to grow on land through changes to their vascular systems.