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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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