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As he sums up his long and flabbergasting description of how the trilobite was able to make use of the unusual light-transmitting ability of calcite crystals, Fortey comments, "It would be no less than the truth to say that the trilobite could give you a stony stare."
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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The secret of the trilobites 'long biological success, Fortey implies, lay in their ability to see the world about them better than anyone else.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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Other attractions are historian Alison Weir, Virginia Ironside on discovering that "being 60 wasn't a curse but a blessing" (her book is called "No! I don't want toJoin a Bookclub"), Simon Hoggart on the Tony Blair years, Michael Billington (of the Guardian) on British theatre since 1945, and palaeontologist Richard Fortey, emeritusof the Natural History Museum and here talking about the institution's history.
A couple of conferences Maxine 2008
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Other attractions are historian Alison Weir, Virginia Ironside on discovering that "being 60 wasn't a curse but a blessing" (her book is called "No! I don't want toJoin a Bookclub"), Simon Hoggart on the Tony Blair years, Michael Billington (of the Guardian) on British theatre since 1945, and palaeontologist Richard Fortey, emeritusof the Natural History Museum and here talking about the institution's history.
A couple of conferences Maxine 2008
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Fortey points out how miraculous it is that living things should have evolved organs capable of perceiving light and form and color, and of transmitting that information to the brain.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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Other attractions are historian Alison Weir, Virginia Ironside on discovering that "being 60 wasn't a curse but a blessing" (her book is called "No! I don't want toJoin a Bookclub"), Simon Hoggart on the Tony Blair years, Michael Billington (of the Guardian) on British theatre since 1945, and palaeontologist Richard Fortey, emeritusof the Natural History Museum and here talking about the institution's history.
April 2008 Maxine 2008
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Richard Fortey, President Of The Geological Society Of London, lashes out at Intelligent Design, rationalizing why it is that this concept has him getting so emotional:
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Having a larger historical narrative is also good because Fortey has a tendency towards digressions and side-stories.
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The Royal Society of London announces the 2011 Copley Medal winner Passive smoking can damage the DNA of sperm, study in mice suggests Bestsellers from the Guardian shop Survivors by Richard Fortey £25.00
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A version appeared on p13 of the Bestsellers from the Guardian shop Survivors by Richard Fortey £25.00
The Guardian World News Ian Sample 2011
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