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APRIL

The Inspiration of Erasmus Darwin (13.00)

After Darwin: Where is Evolution Going?

Darwin’s Memes: Evolution in the Cosmos

Art from Evolution

The Descent of Man—Darwin’s Shadow

The Importance of Genetics in the Understanding of Evolution

MAY

Is Technology Darwinian?

Down House - Home of Charles Darwin (Note - 1.00pm)

The Descent of Man

Curiosity Unquenched—Darwin’s Garden

Joseph Wright of Derby

Twisting by the Gene Pool

Early Reactions to Darwin

JUNE

Darwin’s Philosophical Legacy

An Artist’s Journey to Galapagos

How Far Has Art Evolved?

DECEMBER 2008

What Do We Now Know About the Causes of Evolution?

JANUARY 2009

Ethics After Darwin

Dante’s Infernal Problem

Key Stages in the History of Life

FEBRUARY

Wildlife on the Galapagos

Gwen Raverat (13.00) ** Now on 13th

Duncan Cameron

From Darwin’s Fishes to Jenyns’ Fishes
Opening of ‘Mr Darwin’s Fishes’ exhibition

Gwen Raverat (7.30)

The Imperfection of the Fossil Record

MARCH

Camouﬂage, Mimicry and Other
Adaptations

Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality

Darwin—A Life in Poems

The Wedgwoods and the Darwins (13.00)

The Economy of Nature

Underground Resistance

Darwin’s Worms (14.30 & 19.30)

The Evolution of Promiscuity

JULY

The Selective Advantage of Art

What Makes a Petal?

The Hidden Treasures of Genomes

Darwin’s Secret

There are no lectures in August

SEPTEMBER

The Philosophy of Biology

Tales of the Red Queen

The New Science of Evo Devo

OCTOBER

The Darwin Conspiracy

Masters of Suspicion

Beyond Paradise - The Wildlife of a Gentle Man.

Molecules and the Tree of Life

NOVEMBER

The Great Evolutionary Conundrum

Natural Selection - from Chimpanzees and
Neanderthals to Modern Humans

Cerebral Evolution: the Ascent of Intelligence?

Sir Joseph Hooker of Kew

The Origins of Our Species (14.30)

DECEMBER

Captain FitzRoy’s ‘Painting Men’

Is Evolution Over?

What’s On At A Glance

All events are at BRLSI, 16 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN, and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
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