Vatican is hosting a five day conference from March 3 – 7 to mark to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Even after 150 years of its publication,“The origin of species”, still being debated mostly in a philosophical and theological perspective.The main aim for the Vatican is to re examine the work of scientific thinkers whose revolutionary ideas challenged religious belief like Galileo and Charles Darwin. The prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome will play the host for many scientists,philosophers and theologians from …

Fossils are the remains of of animals, plants, and other organisms which existed long ago, giving us valuable clues to various life forms existed once on planet. Paleontology is the study of fossils across geological time, dealing with how they were formed and also their evolutionary relationships between taxa . A preserved specimen is called a “fossil” if it is older than some minimum age, most often the arbitrary date of 10,000 years ago. Its not that all former life will be preserved as fossils , in fact …

The international journal of Developmental biology features some very interesting articles ,coming mostly from Spanish scientists. Currently this issue can be accessed from ” IN PRESS ARTICLES ” , which includes articles from very eminent scientists like Antonio García-Bellido,Juan Pablo Couso, Gines Morata, Jaume Baguñà, Ernesto Sánchez-Herrero and many more . The highlight for me is the one written by Alain Ghysen about the contributions of Antonio García-Bellido to the field of developmental biology . Its in fact an interview of great man who pioneered developmental genetics, where …

Charles Darwin, a English naturalists who completely changed the way we look at the life present on our planet and is considered as most influential thinker of all time. To commemorate 200 years of birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years of publication of his magnum opus “On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection” , Royal mail has issued six special stamps, a Miniature Sheet of four additional stamps and a Prestige Stamp Book.
The stamps are designed in a quite different way to demonstrate …