Watch as Darwin’s work evolves through multiple edits. Someday we’ll be able to do this with the human genome.

• Sorry I missed it on the 12th, but Revkin wrote an elegant piece on Darwin and conservation.
• Shifting baselines are a real problem.
• The stimulus bill has lots of money for protected areas.
• Erik Meijaard writes about what it’s like being a conservationist for TNC in Indonesia: “much of our time is spent in offices and meeting rooms.” One sentence in particular stands out: “…nature conservation has little to do with nature, but a lot to do with people.”
• At least 235 species occur at both the north and south poles.
• The editor of Conservation Letters looks back on its first year (and a succesful year it’s been!).

In honor of Charles Lincoln’s birthday, some links:

• The Awe of Natural History Collections, by Charles Zimmer
• A kind of great video on the entire history of earth in one minute (wish it had more pictures).
• Olivia Judson on Charles Darwin.
• The entire 1978 BBC series “The Voyage of Charles Darwin” on YouTube and a more recent BBC documentary, “Darwin and the Tree of Life“
• And the irascible Richard Dawkins on Darwin.

Anything else? Leave a comment!