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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. 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. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Young Man! The most common image of Darwin is as an old man with a bushy beard, a bald head, and usually a bit of sour expression on his face. This is a great shame as such images fail to get

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. What Is Evolution? Evolution is the slow process that changes animals and plants and it’s a great piece of science! It describes loads of things in nature like fossils, peacocks' tails, lions’ teeth,

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Natural Selection. Natural selection is Darwin’s most famous theory; it states that evolutionary change comes through the production of variation in each generation and differential survival of individuals

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Symbiosis: No Man Is An Island. John Donne once wrote that no man is an island. Biology can go one better and can assert that no organism is an island either! Clearly no organism exists wholly by itself in

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Darwin's Childhood. Born on 12th February 1809 into a wealthy family, Charles Robert Darwin had a pretty ordinary childhood. He didn’t enjoy or do well at school but he had, from an early age, a passion for

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin The Philosopher. Darwin is remembered for his brilliant science: in many ways though he was equally gifted in philosophy. He himself made many fundamental changes to the way we approach philosophy, and his work has

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. Evolving Drug Design. Humans are the product of evolution. Many of the diseases we have to put up with are also either the product, or by-product of evolution. Can we turn this on its head and use