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Welcome to Our Year of Darwin Celebration of 2009
Evolution: Evidence & Impact
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 the same day as Abraham Lincoln was, an ocean away. Fifty years later, on November 24, 1859, Darwin published his seminal work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Throughout our year-long celebration of the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the "On the Origin of Species," we hope to communicate the many contemporary applications of
- Darwin’s theory of evolution by common descent,
- the breadth of Darwin’s research and its ramifications,
- the truth of Darwin’s work as a cornerstone of modern science and
- the multiple applications of evolutionary theory throughout UC research.
Videos and podcasts of recent Darwin 2009 presentations are available on UC's iTunes U and below:
UC's iTunes U - requires iTunes, a free download, to be installed on your computer. If iTunes is not installed on your computer, visit Apple's iTunes download page. Once installed and launched, close the application and then return to this page and click the UC iTunes U link above.
A large internet bandwidth, such as the one available on campus, is required to view the following:
"Fraud and the Specter of the Nazis: Examining Research Misconduct and Misuse in the Case against Evolutionist Ernst Haeckel" presented by Robert Richards, a specialist on the history of evolutionary science, of the University of Chicago, on April 21, 2009.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design" presented by Robert Richards, a specialist on the history of evolutionary science, of the University of Chicago, on April 20, 2009.
"Mind the Gap: Did Darwin Avoid Publishing His Theory for 20 Years?" presented by the Founder & Director of Darwin Online, John van Wyhe of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, on April 16, 2009.
CAS Colloquium Series on Evolution: "Climate Change in the Galapagos Islands: Its Impact on Evolution and Extinction of Species" presented by Miriam Steinitz Kannan, Regents Professor of Biology, Northern Kentucky University, on April 8.
"Stress-induced Mutagenesis - Can Bacteria Adjust Their Mutation Rates to Meet Environmental Challenges?" presented by Patricia Foster of Indiana University on April 7, 2009.
"The Details Left to Chance: Evolutionary Contingency from Charles Darwin to Stephen Jay Gould (and Beyond)" presented by John Beatty of the University of British Columbia on April 3, 2009. Also available for free on iTunes and Twitter (keyword search: Darwiniana).
"Evolving A Genius: The Extraordinary Early Life of Charles Darwin" presented by Doug Schwartz, Archaeologist, former President of School for Advanced Research (SAR), and current SAR Senior Scholar, on February 17, 2009.
"A Beagle's eye view of biodiversity in Darwin's finches" presented by UC's Kenneth Petren on February 10, 2009
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