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Viewpoint HE new millennium has arrived. I But is it likely to be any better than the last? While lots

... possible daytime telephone number ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S XMAS QUIZ 1 Both the male and the female robin have red breasts. 2 Charles Darwin of course, bit of a trick question! 3 The Red Deer - a common sight in Scotland and becoming more common in parts of England ...

J'J Audubon”;

... obsession for accuracy and detail. He (didn't suffer fools gladly.” But'theré -was great human warmth there as ‘well, as,Charles Darwin found when ‘he visitéed Edinburgh 10 study: ‘ge‘ology and met MacGillivray: “He had ‘not much the appearance and manners ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1486 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

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... with Mr Brown on is distinctive and there's a slick Money Mark keyboard sound backing a singalong tune which disputes Charles Darwin's evolutionary pecking order. The start of the tune is all 303 squelches and stuff and it's a pity he didn't continue ...

Jim Ballantyne EDINBURGH

... under each new wave of the pink tide of ‘homosexuality, they can at least draw comfort from the fact that their béte noir, Charles Darwin, must have been wrong. After all, if he had been right, such nonreproductive behaviour would Have long since bred itself ...

Published: Wednesday 19 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Summerbridge WI

... near the equator. They form a nature reserve. The unique flors and fauna have evolved in isolation fror» ' ~ain land and Charles Darwin’s visit in 35 Subst quently led to the modern theory of evolui.on We marvelled at the adaptation of plints 1o survive ...

“I went to poke fun, but found myself envying them their faith

... begin to look at your life as being comic rather than tragic. The central joke is that my great-great-grandfather was Charles Darwin; my great-grandfather was Francis Darwin, who was a moderately good botanist; my £14.99, 0715630024). Memoir from Darwin’s ...

Published: Friday 21 January 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 454 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Men evolving backwards

... screenplay writer, best known for his work on the Alan Pakula film “Consenting Adults”. He is also the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. Trials of the Monkey describes a journey Chapman made to the creationist American South. The account is interspersed ...

Published: Friday 21 January 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Liberating Duke

... Catholic emancipation at a huge political cost to himself. He increased tenants' rights. He Samson of the soil matters/Joe CHARLES Darwin wrote admiringly of these lowly organised creatures that he doubted whether there were any other animals which had played ...

Published: Sunday 30 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Making a marriage last

... girl/man I married. Of course they are not. Neither are you. You never swim in the same river twice. What happened to Charles Darwin? He made up his mind to marry, with a few pangs for lost freedom: Eheu! I never should know French or see the Continent ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1282 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Going places – English teacher Graham Greensit exploring the arid

... cacti-filled slopes of the north-west. I haven't yet ventured into Patagonia, the vast southern bleakness written about by Charles Darwin and Bruce Chatwin. Cultural features in sharp contrast to Britain include: BARBECUES - The typical Argentine male has ...

Published: Friday 18 February 2000
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Tuesday Ape-man (BBC 2 9pm)

... the fundamental questions about the origins of human life that have captured the minds of humans ever since the ideas of Charles Darwin. The first film, called ‘human’, tries to understand what it means to be human and how long ago scientists can be sure ...

The missionaries who went too far in the name ot Christianity READ OF THE WEEK

... friends and family, travelling again with Captain Fitzroy, again on the Beagle, this time along with a young naturalist Charles Darwin, who studied them with interest. By the time Darwin's Origin of Species was published almost 30 years later to change ...

Published: Monday 28 February 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 687 | Page: 16 | Tags: none