B. Ricardo Brown, PhD · @NODE801
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The are the works cited in Until Darwin: Science & the Origins of Race (2010). Redoing a project from the old site. - the works in Darwin's personal library, will follow that.

#untildarwinbibliography #fromthelibraryofcharlesdarwin #histstm #histsci #charlesdarwin

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29-Aug: On this day in 1831, received a letter, written five days earlier, that was to change his life. It informed him of a vacancy aboard a ship named HMS Beagle…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/h

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28-Aug: On this day in 1831, ’s tutor and friend John Stevens Henslow sat down to write a letter that was to change his favourite pupil’s life.

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/h

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DAMN!! The Jehovah's Witnesses called, and I WAS OUT! (I love to watch the look on their faces as I politely invite them to join The Friends of .)
friendsofdarwin.com/join/

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07-Aug: On this day in 1838, took his first ride on a ‘railroad’ (sic). Here are his thoughts on the experience…

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d

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Scienza @ Magia · @scienzamagia
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Democraticamente è più facile credere nel populismo. La scienza non è democratica: un’ipotesi condivisa non la rende reale. Vale anche per il clima. La scienza opera con due semplici passi: identifica l’ignoranza e cerca di ridurla. Prendiamo la domanda cosmica: da dove veniamo?

scienzamagia.eu/scienza-tecnol

#cambiamentoclimatico #charlesdarwin #copernico #galileo #ignoranza #metodoscientifico #newton #riscaldamentoglobale #soffiodivino #vaccini

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05-Aug: On this day in 1832, and his HMS Beagle shipmates came under fire while helping to put down an armed insurrection in Buenos Ayres.

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d

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Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
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20-Jul: On this day in 1858, began to write an ‘abstract’ of his planned ‘big book’ on species. That abstract was to grow in scope, evolving into ‘On the Origin of Species’.

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d

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20-Jul: On this day in 1804, ’s future friend, then enemy, the brilliant palaeontologist (and inspirer of the word ‘dinosaur’), Richard Owen, was born in Lancaster, England.

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/o

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@ellane Colours appear different depending on how computer monitors (and people's eyes!) are calibrated, so what you or your computer see as hex (my website's banner colour) is not necessarily the same as how I or my computer see it.

took a book of standard colours with him on the Beagle voyage to help him describe colours more consistently.

#415e77 #charlesdarwin

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05-Jul: Born on this day in 1805, ’s brilliant but temperamental captain aboard HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy.

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/f

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01-Jul: On this day in 1858, finally went public with his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, having been startled into publishing by a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d

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Knowledge Zone · @kzoneind
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: and Darwin’s Experiment.

's ecological experiment on Ascension island could be a key to our future

knowledgezone.co.in/posts/6498

#charlesdarwin #terraforming #ascensionisland #knowledgebyte

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18-Jun: On this day is 1858, received the biggest shock of his professional life…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/w

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A posthumous knighthood for 73-year-old Martin Amis sets an interesting precedent. was passed over for a knighthood to avoid controversy. He also died at 73. (But why lend kudos to a discredited honours system by fixing this?)
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65914516

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