Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2013. 3:00 PM.
Location: CIRCLE sanctuary, Old Union 308
Hear talks by Stanford faculty and graduate students on all things Darwin: 3:00 Welcome 3:05 Jessica Riskin, Professor of History Darwin Between the Machines, on Darwin’s struggles with Lamarck and natural theology in creating his theory 3:30 Jonathan Payne, Professor of Paleobiology The Role of Extinction in Evolution, on how mass extinctions alter patterns of macroevolution 3:55 Greg Priest, Graduate student in History Darwin among the Zoophytes, on how Darwin’s researches into marine invertebrates influenced his evolutionary thought 4:20 Break 4:35 Introducing Greg Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin, with a libretto based on Darwin’s writings and a score composed on evolutionary principles 4:40 Katherine Preston, Associate Director of the Program in Human Biology Darwin on Your Plate, on how understanding evolutionary relationships help us appreciate our food 5:05 Lynn Rothschild, NASA and Stanford astrobiologist Replaying the Tape, on whether evolution is a predictive science 5:30 Bradford Harris, Graduate student in History Survival of the Friendliest, on symbiogenesis and the emergence of evolutionary complexity 6:00 Darwin's birthday party (in Old Union 301)
Location: CIRCLE sanctuary, Old Union 308
Hear talks by Stanford faculty and graduate students on all things Darwin: 3:00 Welcome 3:05 Jessica Riskin, Professor of History Darwin Between the Machines, on Darwin’s struggles with Lamarck and natural theology in creating his theory 3:30 Jonathan Payne, Professor of Paleobiology The Role of Extinction in Evolution, on how mass extinctions alter patterns of macroevolution 3:55 Greg Priest, Graduate student in History Darwin among the Zoophytes, on how Darwin’s researches into marine invertebrates influenced his evolutionary thought 4:20 Break 4:35 Introducing Greg Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin, with a libretto based on Darwin’s writings and a score composed on evolutionary principles 4:40 Katherine Preston, Associate Director of the Program in Human Biology Darwin on Your Plate, on how understanding evolutionary relationships help us appreciate our food 5:05 Lynn Rothschild, NASA and Stanford astrobiologist Replaying the Tape, on whether evolution is a predictive science 5:30 Bradford Harris, Graduate student in History Survival of the Friendliest, on symbiogenesis and the emergence of evolutionary complexity 6:00 Darwin's birthday party (in Old Union 301)