Darwin's 200th anniversary
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The Daily Telegraph called him "the greatest naturalist of our time, perhaps all time". For the Morning Post he was "the first biologist of his day".
David Attenborough on Darwin [video]
Source: ScienceBlogs
British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.
The Church of England has decided to extend a posthumous apology to Charles Darwin for rejecting his theory of evolution almost 150 years ago. It comes just five months before the 200th anniversary of his birth which is certain to be widely celebrated:
On the Origin of Life on Earth
Source: carlzimmer.com
Scientists today who study the origin of life do not share Darwin's pessimism about our ability to reconstruct those early moments.
Testing Natural Selection with Genetics
Source: Sciam
Biologists working with the most sophisticated genetic tools are demonstrating that natural selection plays a greater role in the evolution of genes than even most evolutionists had thought
Hummingbird howler on British Bank note
Source: Russia Today.
The portrait of a hummingbird, which has been placed on British £10 notes in honour of Charles Darwin, has caused controversy due to its fictitious association.
Was Charles Darwin A Racist?
Source: mediamonitors.net
In the 19th century, when Darwin put forward his claim that living things had not been created, that they had emerged by coincidence, and that the human being had a common ancestor with animals and had emerged as the most highly developed organism as the result of coincidence, pe …
Intelligent Design: An Ambiguous Assault on Evolution
Source: Live Science
The Scopes Trial revisited? While there are, indeed, "scientific arguments for and against Darwinian theory." as proponents of Intelligent Design suggest, this article shows the derth of those arguments against Darwin's theory in the ID arena.
Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
Source: The Onion
A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downt …
Lets Get Rid of Darwinism
Source: The New York Times
Darwin did more in one lifetime than most of us could hope to accomplish in two. But his giantism has had an odd and problematic consequence. It's a tendency for everyone to refer back to him.
Darwin Online - Introduction
Source: darwin-online.org.uk
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) began in 2002 to assemble in one scholarly website all of Darwin's published writings and unpublished papers. It does not cover his unpublished letters which were already the focus of the Darwin Correspondence Project.
"Darwin's treasure trove" - An online collection of Darwin's papers
Source: newhumanist.org.uk
As the director of Darwin Online, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Van Wyhe, along with a team of three other academics, has spent the past three years cataloguing and uploading the 20,000 or so items that make up Darwin's private papers.
Annals of Innovation
Source: New Yorker
The New Yorker published this article concerning innovation which proves the theory that the patent system is ineffective.