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Sean Carroll webcast

The full video from Professor Sean Carroll’s wonderful lecture, “Making of the Fittest”, for the Darwin150 fall 2009 lecture series is now available online.Please share this terrific lecture with colleagues, students, friends and family. Video: ht… Continue reading

27. December 2009 by Arrian
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Sean Carroll’s Darwin150 webcast is *tonight* at 8pm ET

Professor Sean Carroll’s third lecture in the Darwin150 campaign still has a few webcast spots left. This will be one of this great scientist’s best talks – a multi-media extravaganza supporting his great insights and writings. It all begins at 8p… Continue reading

04. November 2009 by Arrian
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Help!

Creationists continue to mount attacks on our Darwin150 campaign and we need your help. How can you help? 1. Join our Facebook page (250,000+ members) Join our Darwin150 group on Facebook and get as many friends, colleagues, faculty, students, chu… Continue reading

24. October 2009 by Arrian
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Dawkins “Greatest Show on Earth”

New York Academy of Sciences, partner to Darwin150 and the Reading Odyssey, is hosting Richard Dawkins tonight in New York talking about his latest book, “The Greatest Show on Earth.” This book is squarely about evolution – and few write as well a… Continue reading

20. October 2009 by Arrian
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“Variation” – Darwin150 Lecture 2 by Professor Jonathan Weiner

We had a great lecture tonight live from Columbia University by Professor Jonathan Weiner. His talk – “On Variation” – was the second lecture of our five-part Darwin150 lecture series. Professor Weiner won a Pulitzer Prize for his wonderful book, … Continue reading

08. October 2009 by Arrian
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Origin of Species: Additional evolution texts

Hello Origin Readers,We discussed some additional texts that may be of interest to anyone enjoying Origin of Species last night during our conference call. In case you’re interested in exploring them, here is the list of books mentioned and links … Continue reading

08. October 2009 by Arrian
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Darwin 2009: Origin Chapters 1 & 2 6 Oct 2009 audio recording

We had a great call tonight discussing Chapters 1 & 2 of Origin of Species! Here’s the audio recording for the 6 October conference call -if you were unable to make the conversation (or just want to enjoy it again!) please download the mp3 here: T… Continue reading

07. October 2009 by Arrian
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Darwin’s Origins

One section of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” starts tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The reading group will have read chapters 1 & 2 and reviewed the reading questions created and distributed by our moderator Stephanie Aktipis. If you’d l… Continue reading

06. October 2009 by Arrian
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