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John Whitfield is a London-based freelance science writer. He writes mostly about evolution, ecology and conservation; his work has appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, Seed, New Scientist and others.
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To a man with a hammer, said Mark Twain, everything looks like a nail. The better your hammer, I would add, the more nail-like everything looks. In natural selection, Darwin had crafted one of the best hammers of all time....
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After the martini, the nut loaf.
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Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Here's a project for a playful biology grad student with some time on his or her hands. Take chapter 2 of the Origin of Species, 'Variation Under Nature', and modernize the language. Toss in a few figures and some contemporary...
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Man, this guy didn't know anything.
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What's the first living thing named in the Origin of Species?
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Reading Darwin like it's 2009 -- and 1859.
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