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4 hours ago — Such ecosystems normally develop over million of years through a slow process of co-evolution. By contrast, the Green Mountain cloud forest was cobbled together by the Royal Navy in a matter of decades. The BBC chronicles...
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by Futurismic
3 hours ago — Everyone’s been linking this one (though I saw it first at Chez Ken MacLeod ), but it’s too good a story not to mention: the rich ecosystem of Ascension Island is not natural, but the result of a collaboration between Charles...
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by Kuratkull
3 hours ago — Ascension Island, a British overseas territory in the south Atlantic, was originally a nearly-lifeless, uninhabited rock. It had no freshwater except for rainfall which quickly evaporated. But in an experiment, Charles...
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5 hours ago — Ascension Island Charles Darwin's artificial forest captures moisture from clouds that drift over the volcanic peaks on Ascension Island. Google Earth The father of evolution apparently played God with a tropical...
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13 hours ago — rock in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. On the other hand, I might not have noticed at all. The fact is, virtually all of the major vegetation on Ascension Island was an experiment conducted by Charles...
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14 hours ago — beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the...
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14 hours ago — beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the...
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20 hours ago — It was both scary and pathetic at the Discovery Channel in Maryland today when an environmental terrorist took hostages in an attempt to force the television network to show more programs on Malthus and Darwin and to rail...
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by Mirabilis.ca
September 01, 2010 — From the BBC: Charles Darwin’s evolution experiment on Ascension isle . Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical cloud forest . What happened in...
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September 01, 2010 — Island holds Darwin's best-kept secret : Cloud forest now forms a damp oasis on Ascension's highest peak (Howard Falcon-Lang, 9/01/10, BBC News) Back in 1836, the young Charles Darwin was coming to the end...
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August 31, 2010 — cap and slid down the flue feet first. Apparently they don't teach spatial relations at med school. The tragedy is that she didn't even need to do herself in to win a Darwin award, her odds of NOT being an evolutionary...
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11 hours ago — In effect , what Darwin, Hooker and the Royal Navy achieved was the world's first experiment in "terra-forming". They created a self-sustaining and self-reproducing ecosystem in order to make Ascension Island more...
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August 31, 2010 — meander, don't expect resolution in three short lessons or seven easy steps. Real life simply doesn't work that way. So - to begin... I received a book recently Theology After Darwin (not...
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August 30, 2010 — A couple of friendly acquaintances I know through the blogosphere have been questioning God lately. One, a non-Believer from the UK named Steven (aka, Vilges ), respectfully asked about my position regarding...
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August 30, 2010 — some, lose some. Just as the bedbugs were dying off, something predictable to students of Darwin occurred: New outbreaks of bugs that were resistant to DDT. They had evolved. Sixty years...