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I've just been playing around with the new 'Devolve me' tool on the OU's freshly launched Darwin website. Here I am as a homo heidelbergensis from 500,000 years ago:

I think it's quite good, but I'm not too happy about my nostrils.

Have a go yourself, on our Darwin website. ...

The Open University has just launched a Darwin website including links to free taster courses on Darwin, iTunesU podcasts, YouTube videos, a discussion forum and a Devolve Me game that let’s you upload a photo of yourself and see how you would have looked 3.7 million years ago, before moisturiser and mascara were invented.

I watched Dawkins on Darwin tonight, and found myself wondering if fundamentalist minds seek out other fundamentalist minds. He really hates Christian fundamentalists, but he can't seem to stop himself scratching the itch.

After the rain earlier in the week it's lovely to have a nice sunny afternoon here at OU towers.

A colleague of mine took advantage of the weather to video Peter Skelton, one of our academics, in the great outdoors, talking about Darwin. Peter is chair of a ...