Fifth Annual Darwin Day Celebration
Feb 21
We will honor Darwin with our annual luncheon and lecture. Dr. Frank Sulloway will speak on Darwin and how his thinking was influenced by his trip to the Galapagos Island.
“Darwin and the Galapagos: What Darwin Might Like to Have Known.”
Darwin’s five-week visit to the Galápagos Islands, during the fifth and final year of the Beagle voyage (1831-1836), provided a springboard for the Darwinian Revolution. If Darwin were alive today and could issue a new edition of the Origin of Species (1859), what kind of evidence from the Galápagos might he consider the most important to include?
Frank J. Sulloway is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology, and is also a member of the Institute of Personality and Social Research, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University and received the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society. Dr. Sulloway has written about the nature of scientific creativity and has published extensively on the life and theories of Charles Darwin.
The menu will be prepared under the direction of Linda-Marie Koza:
Thai-style Curried Lentil Soup,
Coconut Rice
Winter Greens with Lime & Lemongrass
Chocolate Cake with Coconut Ganache
(all vegan)
The luncheon starts at 12:30 and the lecture around 1:00. The lecture without lunch is free.
Lunch $7.00 (Wine available for $3.00)
Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Humanists. Everyone is welcome.
We’ll be in the Thomas Starr King room.