FYI, the first lecture is tonight at 6 p.m. in the Thomas L. Martin Building: How Darwin’s Big Idea Has Improved the Human Condition: Three Vignettes for Discussion Evolution and Modern Medicine—Keith Crandall, Department of Biology Evolution in Forensics, Food, & Conservation—Byron Adams, Department of Biology Evolution and Behavior—Jerry Johnson, Department of Biology 09 February 2009—6pm—455 MARB /R --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] OT: Darwin Bicentennial week To: "Utah-Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com>, "UVAA" <uvaa@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:02 PM For those interested in the topic, there are a series of lectures this week at BYU on Darwin, interestingly enough. Probably at least a few (if not all) have some LDS-themes, given the location (and some of the lecture titles). You can see the agenda here: http://sciencebysteve.net/?p=654

I'm planning on being at most (if not all) of them.

There is also a lecture at U of U Wednesday, 7:30 PM in the Biology Auditorium (where the usual F.O.S. lectures are held titled: "Darwin Day Celebration: Exercise and the Evolution of Humankind"; more info here: http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=020409-2

/R

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