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Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913
Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. Besides independently conceiving the idea of evolution through natural selection at around the same time as Charles Darwin, he explored the Amazon riv
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Unsolved Mysteries
I love a good conspiracy theory, and enjoyed the way Rob Attar explored the reasons they are so prevalent (March). I think it's human nature to want closure – and if we can't have that, we would rather be part of the secret societies that cause the g
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Michael Wood On…
I MET UP WITH A CHINESE FRIEND THE OTHER day at the British Library. What better place to reflect on human history as told through its literature? From Michelangelo and Leonardo, to the Ma'il Qur'an and the Codex Sinaiticus; from Jane Austen and Geor

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