February 2012
20 posts
“Evolution isn’t just a story about where we came from. It’s an epic at the...”
– Ken Miller, “America’s Darwin Problem” (via celadoncity)
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AMNH Presents Digitized Manuscripts of Charles... →
fuckyeahanthropology:
In celebration of Darwin Day, the American Museum of Natural History is officially unveiling the first phase of the Darwin Manuscripts Project—the most comprehensive catalog of Charles Darwin’s scientific manuscripts ever compiled. The project is an ambitious online tool that traces the intellectual development of the famed naturalist and his groundbreaking theory of...
“If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I’d give it...”
– Daniel Dennet (Philosophy Professor, Tufts University)
Happy Darwin Day!
“12th There has been a little swell on the sea to day, & I have been very...”
– Charles Darwin - written in his diary on his 23rd birthday, 12th February 1832, on board the HMS Beagle. (via weffanie)
January 2012
9 posts
Archaeological News: UK scientists find 'lost'... →
archaeologicalnews:
LONDON (AP) — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that…
“The oldest of all philosophies, that of evolution, was bound hand and foot and...”
– T.H. Huxley, 1887 (via jainz)
“My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of...”
– Charles Darwin (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
December 2011
20 posts
“Nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to...”
– On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (via entre-de-las-lineas)
“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me...”
– Charles Darwin, pondering feather evolution, 1860, in a letter to botanist, Asa Gray (via therecipe)
November 2011
7 posts
