Join us to celebrate Darwin Day and the Hub’s 4th birthday celebration! We will have a series of short talk/discussions starting at 6:30pm and then our keynote address will begin at 7:30pm by Professor Jeff Mitton. Stay for cake and meet Jeff after!
Darwin made many contributions, but none had more impact on science and society than his simple, extensively documented, and thoroughly convincing description of natural selection. In recent decades, we have come to appreciate that selection in natural populations is much stronger, and hence evolution occurs more quickly than Darwin appreciated. To demonstrate the ubiquity and strength of nature selection, a series of local examples of selection will be presented. Local examples will include the response of mountain pine beetles to warming spring temperatutes, the interaction of pines and mountain pine beetles, coloration in jagged ambush bugs, and adaptation of both limber pine and ponderosa pine to elevational gradients in the Front Range of Colorado.