amazing aye-ayes

I’m not sure how much time you spend on the ‘non-human’ primates these days; we got quite a bit of content in that area when I was a student, but I do know that things have changed! Anyway, lemurs (prosimians) are part of that group. And one that’s always fascinated me is the aye-aye – […]

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the TimeTree of Life

Oh, now this is really cool. There’s a new site available that lets you find out the divergence times for a whole lot of different species (anything that there is DNA sequence data available for, really – it’s based on published data & gives the references along with results). It’s called Time Tree, & it […]

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permit me a small piece of pedantry

But I simply couldn’t resist this particular headline from the Royal Society’s news bulletin. (Not the RS’s doing, they simply select science-y headlines & send them round): Museum asks, what is greatest invention?  Science Museum in London choses the steam engine, the X-ray machine, the electric telegraph, the DNA double helix, Stephenson’s Rocket train, the Apollo 10 […]

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a fieldays update…

… and a VERY happy me. Not to mention the rest of our team. Because – – we won ‘Best Premier Feature Site 2009′ at Fieldays 🙂 And it’s been a very busy few days, hence my lack of anything substantial for you to really get your teeth into. But I promise, this will be rectified […]

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