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These are shrubs that do several things pretty well. Magellan barberry (Berberis buxifolia) and Darwin's barberry (B. darwinii) are multi-use shrubs that are easily grown. Magellan barberry makes ...
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wants people’s views on an application to release two biological control agents to combat Darwin’s barberry, an invasive weed. Environment ...
The Environmental Protection Authority is inviting submissions on an application to import and release two weevils for the biological control of the weed Darwin's barberry. The application is ...
That's what Charles Darwin did with his theory of evolution by natural selection. The theory was announced publicly in a lecture at the Linnaean Society in London in 1858, and formally published ...
Published in England barely a month before, Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was sent by the author himself to Asa Gray, a Harvard botanist who would become one of Darwin’s ...
But just what is a reference to the evolutionist Charles Darwin doing in an episode of "The Handmaid's Tale"? As a historian of science currently writing a book on the Darwinian Revolution ...
Ironically, the actual mechanism of heredity—genetics—was revealed in Darwin's lifetime, though he never knew it. Working with pea plants, the Austrian priest Gregor Mendel discovered the ...
Now imagine colliding into one over 80 feet long. That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider, it’s not impossible. The BBC YouTube video below highlights the arachnid’s web ...
You can check out the first known photographs of bacteria, an article on a ‘hateful Colorado grasshopper,’ and more from the naturalist's vast collection. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 12 ...
Both were bombed by Japanese forces during World War II; the attack on Darwin killed 200 people and flattened the town barely two months after Tokyo’s assault on Hawaii. Now, 81 years later ...
For the first time since his death in 1882, Charles Darwin’s impressive library has been virtually reassembled to reveal the multitude of books, pamphlets and journals cited and read by the ...