A beautiful Tree of life poster @ Tellapallet would be a wonderful gift for anyone this Christmas. If you want a hardcopy of this poster, you can either (1) download the PDF file here for free and take it to a print shop  and get it printed as a large poster (it prints 24″ x 48″), or (2)  buy it online at Zazzle.com (click here to jump to the poster) (244)

The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site: wildlife is its most notable feature.
The Galápagos islands and its surrounding waters are part of a province, a national park, and a biological marine reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of around 40,000, which is a 40-fold expansion …

The script could not have got any better than this for the Grant’s who spent major part of their life studying Darwin finches evolutionary responses to environmental changes on islands of Galapagos. In this special year of evolution which celebrates 200th year of Darwin’s Birth and 150 years of publication of Darwin’s magnum opus “Origin of species”, Peter Raymond Grant and his wife Barbara Rosemary Grant won the prestigious Kyoto prize for their work “Demonstrating Rapid Evolution Caused by Natural Selection in Response to Environmental Changes”in basic sciences category. The …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …