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Madeleine Beekman

If you are interested in evolution, then this is the place for you.

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The Great Oxygenation Event

I love insects, but even I would find a world in which dragonflies have the wingspan of a modern-day hawk, cockroaches are so big they can take on your cat, and millipedes that stretch to almost 3 meters, a little disconcerting. Welcome to...

7 days ago
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And then things changed

Trust me, there is logic to my madness. The reason why I want to write about early life is to illustrate how some changes had a huge effect on all life on earth. In that context, our species’ appearance is just another major change.

Speaki...

21 days ago
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The Lost City of Atlantis

No, not that Atlantis. The Lost City isn’t even a real city. Instead, it is a forest of rock pillars, spires, and beehive shaped structures that are spouting hot water into the ocean. It was discovered in the late 2000s and named Lost City...

a month ago
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The origin of life

I ended the last post with the statement that life is a constant struggle against entropy. What I meant by that is that life is not a static state, but an ongoing process of repair, maintenance, adaptation and replacement. Seen that way, it...

2 months ago
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Let us forget humans for a bit

If there is one message I would like readers to take away from the previous post, it is that we should not see humans as an inherently bad or damaging addition to the natural world. And, because I am an evolutionary biologist, I think it is...

2 months ago
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    Madeleine Beekman, Professor Emeritus, Evolutionary Biology and Behavioural Ecology. Author of The Origin of Language – How We Learned to Speak and Why, Simon & Schuster 2025.

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