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ARTICLE: Darwin’s Chalcopyrite: Engaging Museum Audiences with Global Extractive Stories
Published: December 12, 2024 15:13
In the journal Museum & Society: Darwin’s Chalcopyrite: Engaging Museum Audiences with Global Extractive Stories Liz Hide Abstract Challenging established narratives and acknowledging the colonial histories of natural history collections is an essential…
New and recent Darwin and evolution books
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/new-and-recent-darwin-and-evolution-books-2/
Published: December 1, 2024 04:06
With the holidays now on us, here are some gift-giving ideas for those Darwin, evolution, and history of science lovers in your life (meaning, really, yourself!): Charles Darwin: No Rebel, Great Revolutionary by the late Michael Ruse (Cambridge University…
BOOK: Evolution in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Evolution Before Darwin
Published: November 24, 2024 22:52
Caden C. Testa and Piers J. Hale, eds., Evolution in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Evolution Before Darwin (London/New York: Routledge, 2024) Publisher | Amazon The first in a five-volume work that collects and contextualizes primary sources related to the…
Darwin stories from Sam Kean’s podcast for the Science History Institute
Published: September 19, 2024 01:25
These Darwin stories from Sam Kean‘s podcast for the Science History Institute, The Disappearing Spoon (he wrote a book with the same name), were recently uploaded to YouTube: The whole list of science history stories from Johnson is here.
ARTICLE: “Pray Observe How Time Slips By:” Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin’s Cirripedia Project
Published: August 13, 2024 20:57
A new article in the Journal of the History of Biology: “Pray Observe How Time Slips By:” Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin’s Cirripedia Project Bruno Alves Valverde and Cristina de Campos Abstract This…
GUEST POST: The Weldonian curriculum and the history of genetics that might have been: An exchange on Disputed Inheritance
Published: August 3, 2024 23:44
The following guest post comes from historian of science Gregory Radick, author of the 2023 book Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, which was nominated for the British Society for the History of Science’s 2024 ……
BOOK: Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods
Published: May 28, 2024 19:40
Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods, edited by Kostas Kampourakis (Cambridge University Press/2024) | Publisher’s description: “Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their…
ARTICLE: The Varieties of Darwinism: Explanation, Logic, and Worldview
Published: May 28, 2024 19:25
In The Quarterly Review of Biology: The Varieties of Darwinism: Explanation, Logic, and Worldview Hugh Desmond, André Ariew, Philippe Huneman, and Thomas Reydon Abstract Ever since its inception, the theory of evolution has been reified into an “-ism”:…
VIDEO: Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Published: May 15, 2024 18:02
ARTICLE: Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth
Published: April 26, 2024 13:53
In the Journal of the History of Biology: Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth Thierry Hoquet Abstract This paper revisits Fleeming Jenkin’s anonymous review of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species,…
ARTICLE: Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species
Published: April 26, 2024 13:49
In the Journal of the History of Biology: Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species Eric Burns Anderson Abstract The importance of naturalization—the establishment of species introduced into foreign places—to the early development…
VIDEO: Darwin and Mountains: Evolution and Mountaineering
Published: March 20, 2024 20:16
New and recent Darwin and evolution books
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2023/11/25/new-and-recent-darwin-and-evolution-books/
Published: November 25, 2023 17:32
With the holidays now on us, here are some gift-giving ideas for those Darwin, evolution, and history of science lovers in your life (meaning, really, yourself!): Understanding Charles Darwin by Erik L. Peterson (Cambridge University Press/2023) |…
ARTICLE: Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution
Published: August 26, 2023 20:45
In the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences: Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution Bogdana Stamenković Abstract Numerous authors have examined the influence of other thinkers on Darwin’s formulation of some of the key concepts of the…
BOOK: Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Published: May 2, 2023 17:37
Biologist and prolific Darwin/Wallace scholar James T. Costa (Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species; On the Organic Law of Change; The Annotated Origin; Darwin’s Backyard; and as co-editor, An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion) has just published a new…
ARTICLES: Wallaceism, Darwin and murder in the French popular press, and Darwin and coral reefs
Published: March 11, 2023 19:00
In the journal Nineteenth Century Studies: Tracking the Rise and Fall of Wallaceism: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Darwinism and Its Transatlantic Influences Lauren Cameron Abstract Alfred Russel Wallace is generally presented as a footnote in scientific and…
On Darwin, earthworms, and a new children’s book, Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular
Published: March 8, 2023 18:51
I wonder if Charles Darwin was fascinated by earthworms as a child. My children certainly were when they were little. On the left is my son’s hand with an earthworm when he was 4 (now 16!), and my daughter’s hand … Continue reading →
VIDEO: Janet Browne on ‘Charles Darwin as a Writer’
Published: December 11, 2022 20:00
VIDEO: Cambridge Darwins in Conversation
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/video-cambridge-darwins-in-conversation/
Published: December 11, 2022 19:59
New and recent Darwin books
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/new-and-recent-darwin-books/
Published: December 5, 2022 19:12
With the holidays now on us, here are some gift-giving ideas for those Darwin lovers in your life (meaning, really, yourself!): Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia by Kay Harel (Columbia University Press/2022) | Publisher’s description:…
Darwin’s full correspondence now online!
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/darwins-full-correspondence-now-online/
Published: November 24, 2022 16:54
Decades in the works, the final volume of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin will be published early next year, and the full correspondence is now online. Click on the image to learn more! Much gratitude to the many, many scholars … Continue reading →
BOOK: Darwin & Hooker: A story of friendship, curiosity and discovery that changed the world
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/8119/
Published: September 14, 2022 16:22
Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK, in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has published a children’s book about Charles Darwin and his botanist friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, by Alexandra Stewart and Joe Todd-Stanton, titled Darwin & Hooker: A…
Guest Post: Darwin in Edinburgh
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/guest-post-darwin-in-edinburgh/
Published: August 18, 2022 23:25
The following is a guest post from John Tweedie (@JTweedie), who recently partook in the Darwin in Edinburgh walking theater tour, which “retraces Darwin’s steps, exploring the locations & characters that influenced his own evolution in the city.” John…
Linnean Society program on Darwin’s Vasculum
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/linnean-society-program-on-darwins-vasculum/
Published: June 30, 2022 16:40
Three new Darwin books
https://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2021/11/26/three-new-darwin-books/
Published: November 26, 2021 21:58
Here are three new Darwin books to know about: The Ghost in the Garden: In Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden by Jude Piesse | Publisher’s description: “Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount, in … Continue reading →