Like all the sciences, evolution is constantly, well, evolving. New insights and unexpected discoveries combine with seeing old things in a completely new light. It is active, dynamic, changing and unpredictable. We wanted to create a website that captures the excitement and thrill of that exploration.
- Simon Conway-Morris
Are there actually Martians out there? Could life survive in boiling water? And more importantly, what is your dog really thinking?
If these are the sort of questions that keep you awake at night, then help is finally at hand, in the form of a new website created by a team of scientists at Cambridge and featuring contributions from a host of leading academics.
Named Forty Two (after Douglas Adams’ famously cryptic solution to the meaning of life), the site is an online resource dedicated to the subject of evolution, and includes video interviews in which researchers including Sir David Attenborough, Simon Conway Morris, Eugene Koonin, and Carenza Lewis offer their views on topics ranging from the nature of evolution itself, to the future of life as we know it.
Aimed at general readers and, in particular, young people who are just starting to get into science, its aim is to provide an innovative and authoritative source of information about evolution on the web.
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Image: 42evolution.org is a new website created by a team of scientists at Cambridge and featuring contributions from a host of leading academics.
Credit: www.42evolution.org
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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