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Organic cultivation of mixed vegetables on an organic farm in Capay, California.

Dominic Berry - Intellectual property

... So, these breeders were important to people like Charles Darwin, who I understand is someone that a lot of your ... in. Breeders mattered fundamentally to the way in which Darwin went about during his research and the way in which he ...

People and Colour

What is light?

... - As we walk down these aisles, we've walked past Charles Darwin and now that we're in Newton's aisle, I can see ...

anne jones bearded lady poster

Why don't women have beards?

... is to do with sex or selection. This is the second of Darwin's great mechanisms, that selection doesn't just work ...

Laughing baby

Laughing babies

... that you know very well. There’s a great bit in one of Darwin’s books where he observes that little children ...

An angry cartoon face

Best of NG - Making music, mice rage

... to a bit of this.  So, we've got some of the tracks, the Darwin tunes as they're called.  So here's the first track ...

A still life oil painting of a basket overflowing with fruit.

Science plus Art: more than the sum of their parts?

... than on any other topic - quite apart from the fact that Darwin holds a special place in the hearts and minds of the ...

THe moon shining over some grass

Moonlight Photosynthesis?

... of plants in the garden fold up their leaves at night. Darwin was interested in this and thought that it was to do ...

Planets around other stars

... for looking at the spectra of planets. I'm thinking of Darwin in particular. Does it look like any of those missions ... going to fly anytime soon? Hannah W. - So unfortunately, Darwin is dead. It's not around. We're not flying that ...

Planets around other stars

... for looking at the spectra of planets. I'm thinking of Darwin in particular. Does it look like any of those missions ... going to fly anytime soon? Hannah W. - So unfortunately, Darwin is dead. It's not around. We're not flying that ...

A Zircon

Mineral reveals chemistry of young Earth

... And that's one of the major goals of this work. Charles Darwin put it in a letter to his contemporary Joseph Hooker ...

Light bulb moments

Most science isn't groundbreaking...

... study this idea of inheritance. Graihagh - By the time Darwin and Wallace had come along and said new species ...

Ant evolutionary conundrum

... It is a conundrum that was already realised by Charles Darwin. Chris - How do we think this came about then? What's ...

San Francisco Mission District burning in the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

The San Andreas' fault - or ours?

... is the father of plate tectonics; he is to seismology what Darwin is to biology. One would expect that his work would ...

Music to my ears: how language evolved

... mankind to perceive, recollect and mimic sounds. Charles Darwin, and many scholars after him, have suggested that ...

Goose

Could animals speak?

... on? Jacob - What people have said for a long time; in fact Darwin said this, he said “perhaps the brain is much more ...

Carlton House Terrace - residents of which include the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal Society

This Week in Science History - The Royal Society

... scientists in the world like Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Francis Crick & ...

Neanderthal reconstruction

When did people start using names?

... a leopard, is nearby. Another theory which is by Charles Darwin says that pre-humans communicated by singing just like ...

Harry Belafonte Singing, 1954. From the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection.

From a fish that hums to Pavarotti

... This bolsters the idea- first put forward by Charles Darwin - that the ability to make and control sounds first ...

Immune cells

Immunotherapy: The next step in fighting cancer

... and more of these mutations and it's a bit like a Charles Darwin type process where you get the selection of the ...

photo of balea perversa snail

Extraordinary snail migration

... snails ended up on remote islands was one that Charles Darwin himself pondered. Richard - He comes into the story in ...

Searching the internet on a laptop

Climate change: fighting fake news

... pretty convincing. It’s even been signed by Charles Darwin and the Spice Girls!. Wait a minute - this sounds like ...

Superheroes of Science

... will have heard of. You're not going for Einstein and Darwin. Some of them are a little bit obscure. What was it ...

Portrait painting of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1732–1800) by the American painter Gilbert Stuart.

Looking Left, Thinking Right ?

... sword? 26. What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin made his famous voyage to the Galapagos? 27. What's ... (19%) 26. What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin made his famous voyage to the Galapagos? Beagle (14%) ...

Great Tit at bird feeder

UK Great Tit: Why the long beak?

... genes that is also associated with beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches. So this was what led us to think that ...

A clover with symmetrical bite marks

Fossil bug bites reveal plant leaf movements

... intrigued botanists for a very long time. In fact, Charles Darwin and his son Francis, wrote a book covering this topic ...