Live Webcast - Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Frontiers of Evolution
Speaker:
E.O. Wilson and Everett Mendelsohn
24 Nov 2009
12:00 PM
E164 Lagomarcino
A live webcast of a panel of scientists led by E. O. Wilson and Everett Mendelsohn will discuss Darwin's legacy and talk about the frontiers of evolutionary and molecular biology as part of the the "150th Anniversary of the Origin of Species" Series hosted by The Reading Odyssey and the Darwin Facebook Project.This lecture is the fourth of five lectures in the fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. This is a live webcast being broadcast from Harvard University.
150 minute lecture and Q&A
Biologist E. O. Wilson is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a Harvard University professor, and fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Everett Mendelsohn is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, founder of the [i]Journal of the History of Biology[/i], and editor of [i]The Practices of Human Genetics[/i].
Reading Odyssey is a nonprofit dedicated to helping adults re-engage their intellectual curiosity through reading and discussing some of the best books and ideas.
Sponsors of the series include National Geographic, Citrix Online and their HiDef Conferencing Division, Campaign Monitor, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Center for Science Education, Squarespace, Creation The Movie, and The New York Academy of Sciences.
For more information on our Darwin activities, visit [url=http://www.Darwin150.com]www.Darwin150.com[/url]