Welcome!
Welcome to the Charles Darwin & Evolution website.
What is this?
This website celebrates the life, work and impact of Charles Darwin. There are lots of articles about who Darwin was, what he did and why he matters. You can also read about modern case studies which showcase some of the evidence supporting Darwin's theories. Use the menu to the right to explore.
This website has been put together by students from Christ's College, Cambridge - where Darwin studied.
The Darwin Festival
You can watch/listen to talks from the Darwin Festival online, you can find them on YouTube or Itunes.
News
15/10/2009 ~ Talks from the Cambridge Darwin Festival are now available online. You can find them on YouTube or Itunes.
8/10/2009 ~ St. Andrews University recently held their own celebratory event to mark the Darwin anniversaries. You can watch the lectures from this event online here.
4/10/2009 ~ There have been a number of exciting pieces on evolution in the news over summer. Here are a couple of highlights:
Ardipithecus ~ a 4.4 million year old Hominid fossil has shed new light on human evolution. Read more...
Deer mice ~ a brilliant study on cryptic pigmentation in Deer mice has traced the origin and spread of a beneficial mutation that helped a population of mice adapt to a new habitat. Read more...
19/6/2009 ~ get a free Richard Dawkins DVD for your school here!
7/6/2009 ~ AQA, one of the GCSE/A-level exam boards, does not support the teaching of creationism as a scientific idea and has scrapped an ill phrased exam question to make it clear.
On another note... swimming deer: a throw back to the evolution of whales.
4/6/2009 ~ Climate change is changing the way natural selection acts on wild populations. For example on these Soay sheep.
19/5/2009 ~ a 'new', very well preserved, 47 million year old primate fossil: read the original research here
23/5/2009 ~ Another transitional fossil, this time a glimpse into how seals evolved their marine habits from terrestrial ancestors
15/4/2009 ~ A nice article on how to understand natural selection can be found here
3/4/2009 ~ Camouflage, classic examples of the products of natural selection
30/3/2009 ~ Take part in a real scientific research project. Evolution MegaLab is studying evolution in action in banded snails. Read the news story...
