Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin by AN Wilson review – how wrong can a biography be?Wilson blames Darwin for totalitarianism and portrays him as a monster of ruthless self-interest. It’s a prolific biographer’s cheap attempt to ruffle feathers
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Australian scientists dispute Darwin's theory about whale's teethFinding debunks long-held idea that teeth of prehistoric animals were shaped to allow water to sieve through them
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Dogger, Fisher, German Bight: shipping forecast celebrates 150 yearsThe maritime service launched in 1867 and is still ‘vital’ to seafarers, says the RNLI, despite new sources of weather data
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Some still attack Darwin and evolution. How can science fight back?AN Wilson’s ‘exposé’ is the latest in a long line of attempts to undermine evolutionary biology, says zoologist Jules Howard
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Heroes and villains of the Victorian imperial eraLetters: John Wilson on the anti-racists of the Jamaica Committee and the racists of the Governor Eyre Defence and Aid Committee; Gwyn Griffiths on Richard Cobden and others who opposed English meddling in foreign affairs; Ian Bullock on the leading socialist Henry Hyndman’s advocacy of home rule for India and Ireland
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A peacock's tail: how Darwin arrived at his theory of sexual selectionDarwin developed the radical idea of females’ power to choose their mates despite it being at odds with his own notions of women as inferior
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The real importance of a silly-sounding GCSE question on DarwinStudents have expressed scorn over a biology exam question on ‘Victorian monkey memes’. So how much does teaching the history of science matter?
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Ayn Rand’s selfish gene is out of dateLetters: We humans switch our genes on and off and tweak their effects by means of language. We can change our minds. We have free will
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Charles Darwin a racist? Look at his involvement in the Jamaica CommitteeLetter: Mid-Victorian intellectuals can conveniently be identified as racist or anti-racist by their reactions to the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica
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Teach evolution – but not in a moral vacuumLetters: Most early evolutionists were racist, Darwin included
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The 100 best nonfiction books: No 60 – On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)Darwin’s revolutionary, humane and highly readable introduction to his theory of evolution is arguably the most important book of the Victorian era
Darwin's annotated copy of On the Origin of Species goes to auction