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The Legacy of Ernst Haeckel
As the faith versus science wars first exploded across the western world, altering forever the place of religion in society, he was one of the most visible and powerful speakers in favour of evolution. But in his haste to popularise this new scientific idea, the ‘Darwin of the continent’ was to perpetuate a fraud that would come to overshadow all his other achievements.
Continue reading...The Legend of the Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The year is 1878. The place: the steaming, savage jungles of Madagascar. Machete in hand, German explorer Carl Liche leads a group of Mkodo tribesmen through this terra incognita to find something no white man has ever seen before. Entering a clearing, Liche suddenly halts, frozen by the sight that stands before him. A legend is about to be born which will refuse to die...
Continue reading...Monkeys Have Morals After All
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Darwin himself might have raised a bushy eyebrow at the idea that monkeys and apes have a sense of morality and the capacity to tell right from wrong. Such moral qualities have been widely held to be part and parcel of what distinguishes us from our furrier simian relatives – but fresh research implies otherwise.
Continue reading...The Mystery of the Murdered Sea Mammals
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The Galapagos Islands are world famous for their environment. Who is massacring sea lions on the Galapagos Islands? Image by Carlos Ponte But now it seems that the islands’ ecology and environment are being threatened by their own growing popularity, alien animal species, even
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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