Cecil the lion: should we care?Global outrage over a hunter killing an African lion highlights the contradiction between care and concern for the treatment of animals and blind, pitiless evolution.Article15 Sep, 2015
Darwin’s mentorsHow clergymen unwittingly helped pave the way for evolution’s acceptanceArticle25 Jul, 2012
Darwin, slavery, and abolitionDid Darwin’s abhorrence of slavery have anything to do with his theory of evolution?Article23 Jul, 2012
Darwin and the FuegiansDarwin used the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego to illustrate his ideas about human evolution. How could he have been so wrong?Article11 Jul, 2012
Darwinism: it was all in the familyDarwinism began not with Charles but with his grandfather Erasmus.Article01 Feb, 2012
Darwinism and World War OneWhile the Second World War is more obviously connected to Darwinism, it also played an important role in the first.Article25 Apr, 2011
Darwin’s Lamarckism vindicated?Darwin later rejected pure ‘Darwinism’ for Larmarkism and now discoveries in epigenetics suggest that inheritance of acquired characteristics does occur.Article01 Mar, 2011
NCSE Gives ‘Favorable’ Review of The Voyage the Shook the WorldAnti-creationists praise aspects of Darwin: the Voyage, but have to milk some criticisms, which turn out to be rather trivial or unjustifiable.Article08 Feb, 2011
A river like no otherOn Charles Darwin’s Beagle voyage, his geological observations using Charles Lyell’s book reinforced his belief in long ages, and underpinned his later evolutionary ideas. But modern geology denies many of his interpretations.Article01 Mar, 2010
The child is father of the manThe attitudes of the young Charles Darwin help us understand his later theorizing.Article29 Jul, 2009
Blast from the Past: Museum director Dr Johann Blasius v DarwinDirector of leading natural history museum in Darwin’s day, denounced OriginArticle01 Apr, 2009