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The Great Outdoors: Hawk plays crucial role in nature's balance

Ithaca Journal - 
Charles Darwin and the sharp-shinned hawk were made for each other. One came up with natural selection; the other enforces it.

British Geological survey unearths Darwin's collection

News Pakistan - 
A team of scientists from the British Geological survey have by chance rediscovered fossils from Charles Darwin'scollection which had been 'lost' for over 165 years.

UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils

USA TODAY - 
LONDON (AP) - British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

Another view on Totem

The Guardian - 
I was impressed when the Charles Darwin character stepped inside what looked like a huge funnel and started juggling illuminated balls.

Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate -- and a Prescient Figure in ...

Discovery Institute - 
While Wallace secured a place in history as co-discoverer of natural selection by sending his famous Ternate letter ("On the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original Type") to a startled Charles Darwin in 1858, he also broke with ...

Birds of a Feather: Genetic Classification Reveals Pigeons' Exceptional ...

Scientific American - 
They are so varied, Charles Darwin once remarked, that if they had been discovered in nature, they would have been considered to be several separate species.

Charles Darwin's 'extinct' tortoise might have just been hiding - for 150 years

Daily Mail - 
During his historic voyage to the Galapagos in 1835, Charles Darwin noted that the shells of tortoises living on different islands had different shapes.

Mbeki long on talk

Times LIVE - 
Speaking at Stellenbosch University's knowledge management conference - his speech laden with bombast, academic jargon and quotes from Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Donald Rumsfeld - Mbeki was his usual cerebral self.

CDU highlights options for those who miss offers

ABC Online - 
By Myles Morgan Charles Darwin University says school leavers should not be too discouraged if they missed out on a main round offer today.

Darwin's golf young guns clean up at the Alice Open

NTNews.com.au - 
Andrew Wilson, 16, of Darwin, prepares to putt while Andrew Crabb, 16, from WA holds the flag. Hayden Gulliver, 15, from NSW looks on.

Survival's Ick Factor

New York Times - 
Charles Darwin tackled the subject in “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.” He described the face of disgust, documented by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne in his classic study of facial expressions in 1862, as if one were expelling some ...

Intelligent design crossing state line

Kansas City Star (blog) - 
My perception is that the argument is created by the fact that at the time ofCharles Darwin's publication, it was put forth as a theory.

Gas plant to start construction in Northern Territory

PACE Today - 
NT residents could benefit as there are expected to be greater education opportunities with the new North Australian Centre for Oil and Gas atCharles Darwin University and the Larrakia Trade Training Centre. Today's Year 12 students, apprentices and ...

Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling

Discovery News - 
People with a greater knowledge of Charles Darwin's theory weren't more likely to accept it unless they also had a strong gut feeling about the facts.

We're smart enough for Darwin debate

Washington Post - 
I raised the issue of challenges to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection because Republican presidential candidate and former senator Rick Santorum has advocated teaching alternative theories such as intelligent design, the view that some ...

Spartan Chronicles: extinct, species? I THINK NOT

my.hsj.org - 
These differences from one island to the next helped Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution. Sadly, these tortoises went extinct due to over hunting for their meat.

The Earth's Eden

Bangkok Post - 
In 1835, British naturalist Charles Darwin arrived at the group of islands along the west coast of South America called the Galapagos after a four-year ocean voyage from Europe.

Successful Darwin trainer Stephen Brown to head home happy

Herald Sun - 
AFTER a successful but lengthy stint away, Darwin trainer Stephen Brown was looking forward to finally heading home after Bolton's runaway win at Flemington today.

Belief in evolution boils down to a gut feeling

msnbc.com - 
This is one of the last photographs taken of Charles Darwin, who developed the theory of evolution whereby changes in species are driven, over time, by natural and sexual selection.

Mawson Provides Update on Proposed Reorganization of its Business and Capital ...

PR Newswire UK (press release) - 
In furtherance of the Reorganization, Mawson has now transferred all of the outstanding shares of Mawson Peru SAC and 100% of its rights and interest in Altynor Peru SAC to Darwin Resources Corp. ("Darwin"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mawson, ...