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Menu. Main navigation. Intelligent Design. Life is complicated. How have the many varied and complex beings come into existence? Why are they so good at scratching out a life in their own particular way? In the eighteenth century William Paley

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Typical Students. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Darwin was never really a model student and he didn’t particularly enjoy his university studies, either at Edinburgh or Cambridge. At Edinburgh he spent more time

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. Life's Orgins. ‘Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some primordial form, into which life was first breathed’. This is all Darwin says in The

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin, Literature & Language. Darwin’s work quickly captured the minds of many writers. More recently, evolutionary ideas have been used to explore how texts and even languages change over time. Darwin’s work captivated

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Finches & Fishes. Evolution can be a very slow process. Too slow to observe within a human life time? Darwin seemed to think so, but actually we now have numerous examples where long term studies of

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. The Modern Synthesis. The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis is the name given to the school of thought which is now broadly accepted by evolutionary scientists around the world. Formal amalgamation

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Evolution & Conservation. Life on earth is currently undergoing one of the largest mass extinctions our planet has seen. Human activities affect the natural world in a number of ways; we destroy natural

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Darwin's time in Cambridge was very important for him. It was here that he met Henslow and Sedgwick, two great scientists, who saw the potential in the young beetle collector and encouraged him

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Viruses & Vaccines. All of us have experienced an illness caused by a virus at sometime in our life, from flu to verrucas to much worse. Understanding how these viruses evolve is key if we are to be able to

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. How Do We Know? Darwin’s ideas have been about for 150 years, and they haven’t always been popular. At first scientists played around with several different ideas. But scientists are picky people who love

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Later In Life. Darwin had published his great work on evolution. He was recognised as a leading geologist and zoologist, but still Darwin continued to work as vigorously as his health would allow him. He still had

Menu. Main navigation. Bibliography. Darwin was incredibly productive throughout his life. He was limited to working for only a few hours a day for the majority of his life after returning from the Beagle voyage. But despite this he published over

In some cases, a non-native species can spread widely, outcompeting the native community, and causing massive ecological and economic damage.

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Antibiotics. The archetypal image of evolution is the ascent of man. This image represents Homo sapiens as a sort of pinnacle of evolutionary achievement. This is probably because, as humans, we like to

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin's Evolution. On the Origin of Species, written by Charles Robert Darwin and published in November 1859, is the most defining and important book in evolutionary biology. In this book, Darwin argued that different forms

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Transitional Fossils. A lot of people look to the fossil record for evidence of evolution. This is reasonable, if all the species we see today are connected by intermediates there should be some evidence of

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. What About Wallace? This website is a tribute to the life, work and influence of Charles Darwin. However it would be unfair to omit Alfred Russel Wallace from any discussion of evolution. He co-authored, with

Menu. Main navigation. We are very grateful toand Excellence for helping to fund this project. We wish to thank the Master and fellows of Christ's College, especially Prof. Jim Smith, Prof. Martin Johnson, Rev'd Christopher Woods and those on the

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Peppered Moths & Melanism. Darwin’s ideas of natural selection are well-supported by the fossil record and the relationships between living species, but as evolution is often a slow process the changes

On 28th September 1838 Darwin read Thomas Malthus’ economics book An Essay on the Principle of Population, which stated that the human population grows geometrically, unless somehow checked, and food production

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. Why Does Evolution Matter? Some people don’t think Darwin was right, despite all the evidence! It’s very important that people do accept the truth of evolution. Why? Well for one it’s REALLY interesting,

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Pre-Darwinian Evolutionary Thought. Darwin didn’t ‘discover evolution’. Evolutionary ideas had been proposed and debated long before Darwin came along. Darwin proposed the mechanism which brought about

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Adaptation, Global Warming And Evolution. The whole idea of natural selection rests on the gradual adaptation of organisms to their environment. If the environment changes, some individuals will have

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Irreducibly Complex? Imagine you’re walking along a beach one day and you find a watch. Surely the presence of that device would prove to any rational person the existence of an architect of such a

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Rewritting History. Darwin is best remembered for his work on evolution. Before the publication of his famous On the Origin of Species Darwin had been working on the subject for 20 years. There are many myths

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. Who Was Charles Darwin? Who was Charles Darwin? You’ve probably seen a picture of him and he probably had a bald head, a huge bushy beard, a bit of a funny nose and he probably looked a bit miserable. But he

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Study In Cambridge. The UK is full of great universities and the University of Cambridge is one of the best. It’s particularly good for sciences and there are opportunities to study

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. Why Did Darwin Need Updating? Darwin revolutionised biology, indeed no-one else has ever had such an impact on the field. But science doesn’t simply stop and applaud its heroes for a job well done. It