David Winter • Jul 10, 2011 •
It's time to wrap up this series of posts on the origin of animals. If you are just tuning in here, I've already decided that early fossils are utterly fascinating but really not much help to us and had a look at some modern organisms that might give u... Read More
David Winter • Jul 03, 2011 •
The last time I tried to work out what the first animals might have looked like I decided fossils probably weren't much help. So, today I'm going stop looking back into the depths of time, and see if any modern creatures might provide clues as how anim... Read More
David Winter • Jun 19, 2011 •
I see that Prime is playing a documentary by David Attenborough on the origin of the animals. One of my favourite people talking about one of my favourite topics is motivation enough to dust off one of the many posts in The Atavisms massive "drafts" fo... Read More