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These people knew mammoths!
Ice Age Art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and…
 • Richard Carter
Such an ugly looking baby
A startling personal revelation • an ugly baby • a bad pun about crossword puzzles • some sound advice from Kathleen Jamie, and all the usual links and…
 • Richard Carter
‘I ought to stick to Orchids’
Darwin on Abraham Lincoln • Darwin’s photograph collection • Alfred Russel Wallace • Punctuated Equilibrium at 50 • randomness in evolution • sexual…
 • Richard Carter
A large body of facts
How Darwin politely encouraged sceptics to consider the merits of his theory—and how he was right • plus the usual recommended books and links…
 • Richard Carter
Downside-up moon
Astonishing facts about the moon • Samuel Pepys • the wood wide web • an ancient world map • women’s bits • Bic ballpoints • extinction of large species…
 • Richard Carter
All observation must be for or against some view…
Darwin’s primroses destroyed! • Beagle specimens unearthed • cross-pollination • birds’ tree-of-life • beetles • male mammals not so big after all …
 • Richard Carter
Out-of-date before I’d written a word
Seaweed science • landscape philosophy • the Anthropocene that isn’t • Fred Hoyle • Einstein in a hut • sword evolution • early medieval funerary…
 • Richard Carter
Ruinous propensity
Darwin’s 215th birthday • moths to the flame • Darwin’s personal library • caterpillars and blue tits • Hell chickens • the birth of the moon • navel…
 • Richard Carter
Pottering with pen and paper
On failing to write in notebooks. Plus all the usual links and book recommendations.
 • Richard Carter
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