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For Your Darwin Reading and Listening Pleasure

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By gregladen on November 24, 2009.

A podcast from earlier in the year, celebrating Darwin's birthday.

A few essays focusing on Darwin's Voyage on The Beagle

  • Bon Voyage HMS Beagle
  • The Voyage of the Beagle
  • Darwin Crossing The Atlantic
  • Charles Darwin and the Rain Forest
  • Darwin Gets his Wellies Wet
  • South America on Five Dollars a Day
  • Bugs (Darwin)
  • Darwin South of the Tropics
  • Darwin and The Gauchos
  • Fossil Quadrupeds
  • Rheas and the Birth of Evolutionary Theory
  • Elephants and Horses
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Darwin and the Voyage

Thanks!! I needed something for my high school biology course today.

By justin (not verified) on 24 Nov 2009 #permalink
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On the Origin..., Voyage of the Beagle and his autobiography are available as free audio books from Librivox.org.

http://librivox.org/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/

http://librivox.org/the-voyage-of-the-beagle-by-charles-darwin/

http://librivox.org/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin-by-charles-darw…

By Paul Hutch (not verified) on 24 Nov 2009 #permalink
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