Endless forms

Episodes

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John Stevens Henslow

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John Gould, Mockingbird

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John Collier, Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin

Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge

Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829

William Dyce, Pegwell Bay (Wikicommons image)

William Dyce, Pegwell Bay

George Baxter after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Untitled view of the Crystal Palace and Gardens at Sydenham

Untitled view of the Crystal Palace and Gardens at Sydenham

Edwin Landseer, Morning

Edwin Landseer, Morning

Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike

Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike

Bruno Liljefors, The Mating of the Capercailzies, 1888,

Bruno Liljefors, The Mating of the Capercailzies, 1888,

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Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne, Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine

The Evolving Body: With Professor Randolph Nesse

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Darwin, Design and Christianity

Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848

Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848

Troglodytes gorilla from Gabon

Troglodytes gorilla from Gabon

The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt

The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt

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The Predatory Ape: Sex, Simians and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography

Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883; series of lithographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lee M Friedman Fund

Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883

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Between Apes and Angels: Representing the Darker Implications of Darwinism

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Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs

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John Gould, case of stuffed hummingbirds

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Struggle and Strikes: The 'Survival of the Fittest' in Art and Literature

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morning Music, 1864

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morning Music, 1864

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Félicien Rops, Transformismes (Les Darwiniques), ca. 1879, no.1, etching, 12.7 x 16.5 cm., Musée provincial Félicien Rops, Namur

Félicien Rops, Transformismes (Les Darwiniques), ca. 1879

Paul Cézanne, Marion and Valabrègue Setting out to Paint from Nature, 1866, oil on canvas, 39 x 31 cm., Museo Soumaya, Mexico City

Paul Cézanne, Marion and Valabrègue Setting out to Paint from Nature, 1866

Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

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Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the 'Deep Past' in the 19th-Century Imagination

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Darwin in Cambridge: from Christ's College to the Beagle

Plant specimens may seem an unlikely starting point for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection - but, as Professor John Parker investigates in this podcast, the Cambridge botanist John Stev

The Roots of a Theory: How Plants Specimens Led a Young Darwin to Discovery

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'Flaunting It' - Sexual Selection and the Art of Courtship

A Tour of 'Endless Forms': With Sir Paul Nurse

A Tour of 'Endless Forms': With Sir Paul Nurse

Evolving Philosophy: With Professor Philip Kitcher

Evolving Philosophy: With Professor Philip Kitcher

Darwin, Hooker and the Venus Flytraps: With Sir Peter Crane

Darwin, Hooker and the Venus Flytraps: With Sir Peter Crane

Humankind - A Troubling Future? With Lord Robert May

Humankind - A Troubling Future? With Lord Robert May

Darwin and the Arts? Introducing the 'Endless Forms' Podcast Series

Darwin and the Arts? Introducing the 'Endless Forms' Podcast Series

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