• Halfway to a Wallace statue, but time is running out!

    Updated: 2013-01-29 22:44:56
    Exciting news - we have just reached the halfway mark in the fundraising for the statue - we now have about £25,0001 of the £50,000 needed!! We can now afford to commission a large-than-life head-and-torso bust with plinth, which is about half the bronze which would go in to making a 10% larger than life statue which is obviously the ultimate goal. read more</p

  • Selections from the Oxford University Press sale

    Updated: 2013-01-25 14:52:24
    Oxford University Press have several sales every year, always with several heavily-discounted gems to be found. Here are my recommended books that have more than 50% off. The current sale lasts until February 28th, so you have time to take advantage. Ordered by UK price; not sure how it works for the USA readers, sorry. [...]

  • Wallace Letters Online is now live!

    Updated: 2013-01-24 11:51:22
    Wallace Letters Online (WLO), the Wallace Correspondence Project's online archive of Wallace's letters, is now live on the Natural History Museum's website - see ttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/collections/library-collections/wallace-letters-online/index.html a short url is ttp://www.n read more

  • My Research: Carabid networks in a variable landscape

    Updated: 2013-01-19 10:32:41
    In this study, I will be setting up sets of pitfall traps (preservative-filled cups in the ground that ground insects fall into) in ecosystems with very different habitat types, e.g. a forest with clustered tree species and shrub types, clearings, human structures, ponds. This will not only give me a good estimate of the ground [...]

  • LabBook January 11, 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-11 20:16:40
    Genetic history lessons, a rockstar biologist and more in this week's roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news.

  • Neil Shubin Talks About His New Book on the Colbert Report

    Updated: 2013-01-10 16:57:24
    In case you couldn’t stay up late last night, here’s evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, PhD, on the Colbert Report talking about his new book, “The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People.” Highlights from Shubin’s interview start 50 seconds in. Visit the Comedy Central website for the full clip (their embedding [...]

  • Neil Shubin’s New Book Connects the Human Community to its Cosmic Roots

    Updated: 2013-01-09 17:55:53
    University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, Neil Shubin, PhD, just published his new book, “The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People,” a follow up to his 2008 best-seller, “Your Inner Fish.” Where “Your Inner Fish” goes back millions of years to look at the evolutionary links between human anatomy and other [...]

  • A History Lesson from Genes: Using DNA to Tell Us How Populations Change

    Updated: 2013-01-08 23:12:38
    When Charles Darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection, he drew what looked like a tree. The diagram started at a central point with a common ancestor, then the lines spread apart as organisms evolved and separated into distinct species. In the 175 years since, scientists have come to agree that Darwin’s original [...]

  • Alfred Russel Wallace's 190th Birthday!

    Updated: 2013-01-08 01:00:50
    Happy 190th Birthday Alfred! It's going to be quite a year, ith several radio and TV programmes, about 10 books, museum exhibitions in 6 or 7 countries, five or so conferences, plus many other assorted events. To keep up-to-date with what's happening check the Wallace100 events diary throughout the year on a regular basis. read more

  • ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. MEMORIAL PORTRAIT AT SOUTH KENSINGTON

    Updated: 2013-01-07 13:59:34
    ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. MEMORIAL PORTRAIT AT SOUTH KENSINGTON, , The Times, Monday, June 25, (1923)

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