#charlesdarwin — Public Fediverse posts

Plantwatch: The insect-eating alpine plant that proves Darwin was right https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/plantwatch-the-insect-eating-alpine-plant-that-proves-darwin-was-right #WildFlowers #Plants #Environment #Science #CharlesDarwin

Plantwatch: The insect-eating alpine plant that proves Darwin was right
By Paul Simons

Study shows Saxifraga candelabrum traps and digests midges – just as the evolutionary biologist predicted back in 1875

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/plantwatch-the-insect-eating-alpine-plant-that-proves-darwin-was-right

#Wildflowers #Plants #Environment #Science #CharlesDarwin #TheGuardian #PaulSimons

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

@nellie_m

When I found your old post on earthworms the other day, I liked it for the poetry but I wasn't thinking much about biology. I've since remembered Charles Darwin's voice on the matter.

You probably already know about his book on the earthworm? It's Darwin's last book, published in 1881. One way or the other, it's a treasure.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2355/pg2355-images.html

#CharlesDarwin #Earthworms #ecology #LifeIsStrangelyBeautiful

Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/21/rosemary-grant-peter-grant-charles-darwin-finches-evolutionary-biology-princeton-one-step-sideways-three-steps-forward-memoir #Autobiographyandmemoir #PrincetonUniversity #GalápagosIslands #CharlesDarwin #Universities #Environment #Evolution #Wildlife #Research #Science #Biology #Animals #Birds #Books