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Year of Evolution Symposium

Friday, November 21, 2008 - 11:00am

Cohen Hall Auditorium

Understanding Darwin:
The Legacy of Evolution

November 21, 2008
11am - 5pm
Cohen Hall Auditorium (G17)



11:00-11:15        Welcoming Remarks

11:15-12:00        John Beatty
            “Natural Selection of & versus Chance Variation”

12:00-12:45        Rasmus Winther
            “Systematic Darwinism”

12:45-2:00        lunch

2:00-2:45        PZ Myers
            “The Pharyngula: How Ontogeny and Phylogeny have been Tangled from             von Baer to Evo-devo, with Awkward Detours to Haeckel and Creationism”

2:45-3:00        coffee

3:00-3:45        Jane Maienschein    
            Who Cared about Embryos in the History of Evolutionary Thinking?

3:45-4:30        Janet Browne
            “Charles Darwin and the Natural Economy of Households”

4:30-5:00        general discussion