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Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”

Posted on September 18, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...

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How Darwin Seduced the Devout Asa Gray

Posted on June 5, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Below find #7 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s stay at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog here. This ...

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Reef Madness 11: Darwin’s First Theory of Evolution

Posted on August 31, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is the 11th installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral.  (Earlier installments...

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Reef Madness 8: A Dissipated, Low-Minded Charles Darwin

Posted on August 10, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is the eighth installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. (Earlier installment...

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Reef Madness 6: The Death of Louis Agassiz

Posted on July 27, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is the sixth installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. The prior installment...

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Asa Gray Goes Postal

Posted on July 7, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Asa Gray, who keeps coming up this blog lately, has been honored without place on one of the lovelier first-class stamps I have seen come out of the U.S. Postal...

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Reef Madness 5: How Charles Darwin Seduced Asa Gray

Posted on June 21, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I bring here the sixth entry in my partial serialization of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which finds Louis...

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Reef Madness 3: Louis Agassiz, TED Wet Dream, Conquers America

Posted on June 9, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is the third of several installments of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. The first two brought us Louis A...

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Free Science, Funny Science, Darwin, & Some Meta: Neuron Culture’s Top 5 for May

Posted on June 5, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

1. The race for May’s top spot wasn’t even close: Free Science, One Paper at  a Time, my rescued feature about how too much of science is trapped in...

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Reef Madness 2: The One Darwin Really DID Get Wrong: Rumble at Glen Roy

Posted on May 31, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is the second of several excerpts from my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. This is from Chapter Two. Series ...

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