Alison’s Posts

Happy Darwin Day

Oops! I forgot… but anyway, Happy Darwin Day for the 9th of February. Charles Darwin would have been 199 years old. Next year's the 200th anniversary of his birth & also the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species; I'll have to organise some birthday celebrations 🙂

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cool cephalopods

Ages ago I saw an item on TV about cuttlefish – one of the neat things I took away from it was how cuttlefish and other cephalopods (octopus & squid) use colour to communicate, and how precise their control of skin coloration is. And I would tell my students about it, but I didn't have […]

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