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Review: Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England – Steve Jones

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Beyond the limits Huw Sheridan reviews Steve Jones’s Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England Little, Brown, 2009, pp307, £20 The anniversarial hype surrounding Charles Darwin continues unabated. The BBC alone broadcast a seemingly endless flow of programmes as part of its Darwin season. Jones’s book is essentially a polemic against the parody of Darwin’s life ...

Darwin’s revolution

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This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th of the publication of his seminal 'On the origin of species by means of natural selection'. Huw Sheridan looks at its importance for communists Charles Robert Darwin died on April 19 1882. Plans for the funeral in his quiet village were ...