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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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