Take the train from London’s Victoria Station to the town of Orpington, fifteen miles south of the city. Here you might catch a bus or a taxi for the last leg of your journey.
Articles with Darwin
The tendril of a cucumber plant • Photo by Robert Reisman (CC BY 3.0)
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On saying “I don’t know”
When Charles and Emma Darwin bought the house that would be their family home for forty years, at Downe, sixteen miles south of London, one of Charles’ first improvements was to have the flints removed from the property’s chalky meadow.
The North Downs • Photo by Clem Rutter (CC BY 2.5)
Some notion, however imperfect…
Not long ago, on a walk through southern England, I visited Down House, sixteen miles south of London, for forty years the family home of Charles and Emma Darwin.
Tourist cruises at the Galápagos Islands • Photo by Deb Dowd on Unsplash
Darwin might have warned us
On Dec. 27, 1835, young Charles Darwin, in the fifth year of his ’round-the-world voyage as naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle, posted a letter to his sister, Caroline, from New Zealand.
Artist's rendition of early Earth (Public Domain)
Up from the pond
Life is almost as ancient as the earth itself. Precisely how, when and where life made its debut on planet Earth may never be known. But most contemporary scientists agree that the first living cells arose from spontaneous arrangements of non-living matter.