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Madeleine BeekmanIf you are interested in evolution, then this is the place for you.
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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...
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...
Where did all the big animals go?
I live in the very small part of Australia that still manages to maintain a population of cassowaries. Cassowaries are large, flightless birds, often described as ‘killer birds’ or ‘the most dangerous bird on earth’. They do look impressive...
Scorched earth
I just spent two nights in a cabin in the rainforest high up on the Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Australia. Despite the area sitting snugly within the wet tropics, winter evenings are pretty cool up there. And so, for two nights, I r...
The Anthropocene
Before I will attempt to give an answer to the question I posed above, I should try and give a definition of what one means by the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is an unofficial geological and ecological epoch¾a formal unit of geological t...
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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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