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Henrietta Darwin

Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwin’s daughter

12 Apr 2012

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key...

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elephant fish embryo

Under the Microscope #15 - Elephant fish embryo

12 Mar 2012

Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an elephant fish embryo, which live in their egg and feed off of their yolk supply for 7 to 10 months before hatching out...

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Robert Asher

Can a scientist be religious?

11 Mar 2012

The relationship between science and religion has had its rocky moments. But Dr Robert Asher, author of the newly published book 'Evolution and...

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Darwin College Lecture Series 2012

In search of Life at Lady Mitchell Hall

27 Jan 2012

Darwin College continues the popular Darwin College lecture series this week on 27 January with Life in Ruins. The annual eight week series held at...

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Darwin's copy of the Duchenne photographs used in his experiments. The same photos will be used in the Festival of Ideas event and then on the website.

The face of emotions: Darwin, computers and autism

21 Oct 2011

An online recreation of Charles Darwin’s famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas...

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Festival of Ideas 2011

Whistleblowers, zombies… and how to stay out of prison

13 Jul 2011

Freedom, revolution and communication have shaped human history since the earliest days of mankind.

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Books from Darwin's personal library

Darwin’s personal library put online

23 Jun 2011

Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first...

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Letters exchanged by Darwin with his close friend Joseph Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the letter from Darwin was written shortly after the completion of On the Origin of Species in 1859

Red letter day for Darwin Correspondence Project

04 May 2011

The project mapping Charles Darwin’s life and work in the 15,000 letters he wrote or received during his extraordinary lifetime will be completed...

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Ant upside down

Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet

31 Mar 2011

Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight...

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Thorny devil (Moloch horridus) at Great Central Road (WA) 2006

Enter the Map of Life and meet a thorny devil

03 Mar 2011

A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus and how animals separated by millions of years can evolve in the same...

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St John's

Building the Future

04 Jan 2011

Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard on how new buildings and refurbishments across the University are helping research to flourish.

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Cambridge Ideas - Bird Tango

11 Nov 2010

Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds! //-->

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