Stories
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
Catalogue
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Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952.
Date: Únor 1952Reference: 663756i- Books
Unnatural selection : how we are changing life, gene by gene / Emily Monosson.
Monosson, EmilyDate: [2015]- Videos
Are we still evolving?.
Date: 2011- Videos
What Darwin didn't know.
Date: 2009- Books
[Box of papers relating to exhibitions held at the Wellcome between 1960 and 1989].
Date: 1960-1989