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Celebrating Darwin Day

Posted on January 30th, 2019

Charles-Darwin-31A portrait of 31-year-old Charles Darwin
by George Richmond in 1840. [Public domain]

Darwin Day recognizes the achievements and contributions of Charles Darwin to science and humanity each year on his birthday, February 12. Events commemorating Darwin take place internationally, including at Eastern Illinois University. This year at EIU, events will be held Feb 10-12 and will include a film and panel discussion and two guest lectures. All events are free and open to the public.

The DNA Tale of Where We Came From and Who We Are
Film and panel discussion
Sunday, February 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall

Paleogenomics, Community Engagement and the Evolutionary Histories of Indigenous Peoples of North America
Guest lecture by Dr. Ripan Malhi, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall

Ten Thousand Years of Evolution: What Ancient DNA Has Taught Us about Ancestry and Natural Selection in Europe
Guest lecture by Dr. Iain Mathieson, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall

The mission of International Darwin Day is to inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin. Are you inspired?

The following books are on display throughout the month of February in the main hallway of Booth Library and are available for check out.

  • Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
  • Rutherford, Adam,
  • QH445.2 .R88 2017
  • summary | details
  • Dna Usa: A Genetic Portrait Of America
  • Sykes, Bryan,
  • GN290.U6 S95 2012
  • summary | details
  • Dna Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes
  • Heine, Steven J.,
  • QH447 .H45 2017
  • summary | details
  • Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
  • Wells, Spencer, 1969-
  • QH371 .W45 2006
  • summary | details
  • Exploring Personal Genomics
  • Dudley, Joel T.
  • QH447 .D83 2013
  • summary | details
  • Human Genetics: The Basics
  • Lewis, Ricki.
  • QH431 .L41857 2010
  • summary | details
  • In Pursuit Of the Gene: From Darwin to Dna
  • Schwartz, James, 1955-
  • QH428 .S24 2008
  • summary | details
  • Invisible History Of the Human Race: How Dna and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
  • Kenneally, Christine,
  • RB155 .K458 2015x
  • summary | details
  • Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal
  • Hoffecker, John F.,
  • GN281 .H625 2017
  • summary | details
  • My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
  • Frank, Lone, 1966-
  • QH447 .F73x 2011
  • summary | details
  • Seven Daughters Of Eve
  • Sykes, Bryan.
  • GN289 .S94 2001
  • summary | details
  • Social Life Of Dna: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
  • Nelson, Alondra,
  • E185.625 .N45 2016
  • summary | details
  • Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient Dna and the New Science Of the Human Past
  • Reich, David (Of Harvard Medical School),
  • QH431 .R37 2018bx
  • summary | details

 

  • Charles Darwin
  • Desmond, Adrian J., 1947-
  • QH31.D2 D467 2007
  • summary | details
  • Charles Darwin’s Notebooks from the Voyage Of the Beagle
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882,
  • QH365.Z9 C436 2009x
  • summary | details
  • Darwin: A Very Short Introduction
  • Howard, Jonathan, 1943-
  • QH31.D2 H775 2001
  • summary | details
  • Darwin Reader
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • QH365.D25 D37 1996
  • summary | details
  • Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
  • Costa, James T., 1963-
  • QH31.D2 C668 2017
  • summary | details
  • Descent Of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • QH365 .D2 2004x
  • summary | details
  • How to Read Darwin
  • Ridley, Mark.
  • QH31.D2 R475 2005
  • summary | details
  • On Natural Selection
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • QH365 .O2 2005
  • summary | details
  • Origin Of Species by Means Of Natural Selection, Or, the Preservation Of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • QH365 .O2 1985x
  • summary | details

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