The famous Nature journal joined in the celebrations on Darwin day by releasing a special issue on Charles Darwin life and work . Current issue is a treat for all covering varying aspects like what evolution has done to shape human nature and some of the problems inherent in applying biology to questions about humanity. The issue also contain an essay on Darwin’s pigeons and poetry by his great great grand-daughter Ruth Padel. But my favorite is the “insight” section dealing with natural selection and How the modern scientists built …

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin !!!! It was on this day ,200 years ago Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury , considered by many as the most influential scientist of all time. Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution by natural selection in his famous book On the Origin of Species, which completely changed our perception towards planet Earth and our place inside it.This book of charles Darwin was mainly based on his famous ship journey. Darwin was an exceptional thinker and was way ahead of his time, that could be …

To commemorate two anniversaries of Charles Darwin this year BBC aired an excellent film last night: a personal view of Charles Darwin by Sir David Attenborough . Watch this video on their website ,which also offers interactive version of Tree of life . The web link is http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org . Also watch a short video interview of David Attenborough for Nature, carried by The Guardian. Talking about Guardian , They have some outstanding articles from leading scientists and thinkers discussing the masters greatest book. Some of articles are listed below and …

2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and 150 years after he published On the Origin of Species and many magazines, blogs and channels are coming out with some very interesting facts about the genius of evolution to celebrate these two anniversaries. So here i am sharing some interesting links from various sites :
Sciencenews has a special Web edition which includes expanded versions of articles from the magazine’s print edition plus two additional features, all commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Unfortunately many are for …

Darwin -The genius of evolution is the channel dedicated by BBC to celebrate this special year of evolution.As everyone knows this year most of us are celebrating Charles Darwin’s scientific ideas and their impact around his two hundredth birthday on 12 February 2009. Ever since the first publication of his magnum opus “on the Origin of species ” in 1859 where he explained his remarkable theory of evolution by Natural selection, which even 150 years of publication still inspiring many scientists to understand completely how life originated and evolved …

As we have already seen special tributes paid to Charles Darwin,by top journals through “15 evolutionary gems”(Nature Journal) and “Darwin’s Gift”(Lancet Journal) and now New Scientist also makes its TOP TEN EVOLUTION articles available freely for its readers.Its heartening to see the effort put in by various people to celebrate Darwin’s 200th Birthday and spreading more awareness in general public about Theory of Natural selection for Evolution. (245)

It will be all Charles Darwin this year,as it happens to his 200th Birth anniversary and “Origin of species” completes 150 years. Recently Nature Journal came out with “15 Evolutionary gems” as a tribute to Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural selection for Evolution and Lancet another leading journal also paid tribute to great Charles Darwin by releasing a special issue on Evolution called “Darwin’s Gifts”,to commemorate the two specials events in evolution this year. (129)