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Menu. Main navigation. Eugenics. What does your ideal partner look like? Now what about their mind? To many of us the idea of someone who looks like they could belong on America’s next top model with a stellar IQ and a quick sense of humour is

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Here you can read some case studies about various aspects of evolutionary biology. These incorporate evidence from the fossil record, the DNA record and observations from populations of animals carefully

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin's Impact On Psychology. In On the Origin of Species Darwin wrote:. ‘In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. The DNA Age. Darwin's theories depended on there being a way for offspring to inherit their parents' characteristics. For example, if a particular giraffe has a longer neck than average, allowing it to

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. How Henslow inspired Darwin. Darwin’s time spent at Christ’s was a period of great intellectual growth in his life, and it is here that some of the major ideas that culminated in his evolutionary theories were

Menu. Main navigation. From Wilberforce To Dawkins: Evolution & Religion. The publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and later of The descent of Mantriggered fierce debates and raised many questions about life and its origins. This led

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin's Impact On Biology. ‘Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution’ – Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973). These words are as true today as they were at the time they were written. Evolution has

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. Mendel's Genetics. The work of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for genetics. Initially his work went unnoticed and when it was finally recognised his findings were seen as being an alternative to

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. The Descent Of The Man-Made. Darwin developed his theories to explain the biological world. Now they are being put to work in a completely different field – evolutionary electronics, which may produce a

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Darwin & Christ's College. ‘upon the whole, the three years I spent at Cambridge were the most joyful of my happy life’. Darwin’s time at Christ’s College was very important for him.

The gardens also boast nine national collections. Amongst the tree collections are different varieties of Pinus nigra which Henslow collected to demonstrate variability within species, a lesson which he taught to

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. All Aboard The Beagle! Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle was a key turning point in his life, as he acknowledges in his Autobiography:. ’The yoyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life,

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. How Did The Victorian World Respond To Darwin? When Darwin first wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph Hooker detailing what he modestly called his ‘presumptuous’ and ‘foolish’ work on evolution and

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. What use is evolution? Many people spend their whole lives carrying out research on evolutionary biology. Governments give scientists millions of pounds to do this research. Why? Apart from the obvious

Menu. Main navigation. Barnacles. Darwin was to spend eight hard years on barnacles, toiling away dissecting these tiny creatures under the microscope. The result was a 4 volume monograph on the Cirrepedia, living and extinct – the authoritative

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Teachers. Class Trips In Cambridge. Sometimes getting out of the classroom and teaching in a different setting can be great for both students and teachers. Cambridge has a lot of places ideal for educational school

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Evolution And Fish Stocks. Fish and shellfish have long been a vital food source for humans. Historically, fish stocks seemed so plentiful that many thought there were such huge amounts of fish in the sea

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. The Fossil Record - The Prodigal Son Returns. Darwin seemingly had little faith in the fossil record as a source of evidence for his theory; it was just too incomplete:. ‘I look at the natural

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Variation. Understanding how individuals of the same species vary was key to Darwin developing his theory. He had begun noticing variability of individuals during the Beagle Voyage, but it was through his

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Galapagos. The Galapagos holds a special place in the history of evolution, but the story of how the island’s wildlife influenced Darwin’s thought is often misconstrued. Many people imagine the young Charles