I’ve just started reading Donald Prothero’s book Evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters. It looks good & certainly captured my attention right from the start. (However, it will probably take me a little while to get through the book as at the moment it’s my pick for when I’m on the stationary bike at […]
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how not to write a scientific report
says it all, really 🙂
Continue readingevolutionary biology and treatments for cancer
Back in February, after a close friend died of cancer, I commented briefly on the link between evolutionary principles and our understanding of cancer. This is an interesting field of research and now I see that there’s another new paper out on the subject. And there’s also a very thorough review (of both the paper […]
Continue readinga couple of interesting articles for you to read
Both from the pen keyboard of Brian Switek, on his blog Laelaps. The first begins with a quote from Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, recounting the genocidal approach of an Argentinian general towards some of the local indigenous tribes. Darwin found this approach horrifying, but also doubted that there was much that could be done […]
Continue readinga few thoughts on essay-writing
I’m marking essays at the moment (& casting about for ways to procrastinate – I can mark only so many essays in a sitting!). This made me think about the essays those of you sitting Scholarship will be writing at the end of the year – try to avoid a few of these common errors.
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