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In keeping with our Darwin Week theme, here are some e-cards for your sweetheart this Valentine's Day, adapted from Charles Darwin's 1871 study "On the Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex."
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Happy Darwin Day! Today marks the 204th birthday of the legendary evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. So this week at Cambridge University Press, we're paying tribute to one of our most prolific and important authors. To commemorate International Darwin Day and Darwin's innumerable contributions, go Into the Intro of the new volume The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought.
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“Great science doesn’t stand still. It picks up and carries ideas and findings way beyond the wildest hopes of its founders.” — Michael Ruse, one of our favorite Darwin defenders and author of the forthcoming Science and Spirituality. Get a double dose of Ruse by checking out his take on What Darwin Got Wrong (Farrar, […]
Read MoreHappy birthday, Origin! 150 years ago today, Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. We’ve released an anniversary edition, with an introduction by Jim Endersby. Endersby was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning, listen here >>
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Lots of Darwin this year, and Olivia Judson has the round-up, including the new movie.
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Writing for BeliefNet, author and philosopher Michael Ruse writes on religion and science, and why New Atheism doesn't engage either end properly.
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Great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin Ruth Padel has been named Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She is the first woman to hold the post in its 301-year history. UPDATE: It seems that she has stepped down, here’s the first news story I encountered. Thanks to commenter Varol for the heads-up.
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Darwin on the exchange of letters: "It is seldom that one individual has the power giving to another such a sum of pleasure, as you this day have granted me.— I know not whether the conviction of being loved, be more delightful or the corresponding one of loving in return.— I ought for I have experienced them both in excess."
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