Día de Darwin
2023-01-04 | Planetario Sayab de Playa del Carmen, Av. Central, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, 77750, Mexico
El Día de Darwin en Planetario Sayab es una conmemoración del aniversario del nacimiento de Charles Darwin, el 12 de febrero de 1809. Las actividades a realizar resaltan la contribución de Darwin a la ciencia y promueven la práctica de la ciencia en general

Darwin Day at Planetario Sayab, Playa del Carmen. México.
2023-01-12 11:00 - 2023-01-15 15:00, 2023-02-12 11:00 - 18:00 UTC | Planetario Sayab, Calle 125 Nte. S/n, Ejidal, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, 77712 , Mexico
The Sayab Planetarium, together with Pensamiento Crítico Cancún y Alrededores A.C. and Sociedad Humanista México. Together they will celebrate with film screenings, conferences and book giveaways.
Program
11:00. Film projection: The inheritance of the wind.
Details: Drama, United States, 1999. 95 minutes.
The Humanist Society Mexico will raffle a book at this event to the participants: Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.
Venue: Muluc Room
Fee: $20 MXN
Quota: 35 people, over 8 years old.
12:45 pm Film projection: Creation
Details: Drama, Biographical, United Kingdom, 2009, 108 minutes.
Details: 40min
Fee: $20 MXN
Quota: 35 people, over 8 years old.
The Humanist Society Mexico will raffle a book at this event to the participants: Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. Children’s Version. Two books.
15:00 Talk: We are all Africans.
Objective: Analyze human migration and the adaptation process.
He teaches: Skeptical thought of Cancun and surroundings.
Details: 40min
Venue: Muluc Room
Fee: $30 MXN
Quota: 35 people, over 8 years old.
The Humanist Society Mexico will raffle a book at this event to the participants: Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin..
16:30 Talk: Scope and implications of the Theory of evolution.
Taught: M.C. Christopher Carrion
Details: 40min
Venue: Muluc Room
Fee: $30 MXN.
Quota: 35 people, over 8 years old.
The Humanist Society Mexico will raffle a book at this event to the participants: Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.
18:00 Online discussion: Charles Darwin’s legacy to humanity.
Participants:
Biol. Hugo Lopez Camarillo
Dr. Miguel Angel Alba
FREE.
Moderator: M.C. Christopher Carrion

Sacramento Darwin Day
2023-02-04 18:30 - 21:30 | MOSAC, 400 Jibboom St, Sacramento, CA, 95811, United States
The second longest-running Darwin Day celebration in the United States, this annual gathering draws individuals who hold science in high regard and want to sustain the scientific integrity of school curricula and programs.

"No Dinosaurs in Heaven"
2023-02-05 01:00 - 15:00 | Poway Library, 13137 Poway Rd., Poway, CA, 92064, United States
Come watch and discuss the documentary film “No Dinosaurs in Heaven” to celebrate Darwin Day!
“No Dinosaurs in Heaven” Film by Greta Schiller. Featuring Dr. Eugenie Scott and NYC public school teachers. A film about Noah’s Ark, the Grand Canyon and the fight to keep science in and religion out of the public schools.

Darwin Day 2023: "FOSSILS: Messages From Ancient Worlds" with Bryce Hand
2023-02-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Community Library of DeWitt & Syracuse, 5110 Jamesville Road, Jamesville, NY, 13078, United States
Join us for our annual Darwin’s Birthday celebration! This year, Bryce Hand, Professor Emeritus of Geology at SU, will give a talk called FOSSILS: Messages from Ancient Worlds (see below). And this year, to increase the birthday excitement, we invite you to bring along your favorite science-themed snack or dessert.
Come find us at the Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville, downstairs in the large Community Room. We will also be Zooming the talk at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7630427646
Bryce is always a fascinating speaker, so please join us!
Are fossils scarce as those proverbial hens’ teeth? Not at all! In fact, many of our Syracuse buildings are literally made of them.
But are they more than curiosities? Absolutely!
Without fossils, we’d never have known dinosaurs existed. Or pterodactyls. Or trilobites. Biologists would long ago have figured out evolutionary relationships among organisms, but without fossils they’d have had no way of correctly reconstructing ancestors and intermediaries.
This talk will look at some of the ways organisms become part of the fossil record and at the many kinds of information they provide about past environments. And we’ll see why, without fossils, it would have been virtually impossible to establish time relationships between sedimentary layers in widely separated regions.
Simply put, fossils are important! Our knowledge of Earth’s past would be ever-so diminished without them.

PRI Darwin Days Keynote Presentation: Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates
2023-02-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, United States
The late part of the Devonian Period (385-363 million-years-ago) was a consequential interval in the history of life and includes the origin of limbed vertebrates from finned precursors. We will discuss this evolutionary transition with emphasis on recent discoveries of fossil material from the ends of the Earth, and our own “backyard”.
To join the event, please register on zoom.

Darwin Never Saw This Coming; A Human Population Beyond 8 Billion!
2023-02-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Calkins Science Center, 226 Bostwick Ave. NE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503, United States
Join us in recognition of International Darwin Day for our next educational lecture. Dr. Greg Forbes will be leading a discussion of population biology, evolution, and the future of earth’s ecosystems.

Richard Lenski, founder of the long-term evolution experiment, to deliver 2023 Darwin Day Lecture
2023-02-08 03:10 - 16:40 | Buttrick 101, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
Richard Lenski, a world-renowned evolutionary biologist whose long-term evolution experiment of the microorganism Escherichia coli has been running for over three decades, will deliver the 2023 Darwin Day Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Lenski’s talk, part of Vanderbilt’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative International Darwin Day celebrations, will begin at 3:10pm CT in Buttrick 101, preceded by snacks and soft drinks. The event is free and open to the public.
Lenski is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a MacArthur fellow, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, Lenski received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
Researchers have long-pondered the repeatability of evolution. The paleontologist Stephen J. Gould famously wondered what would happen if we could replay the “tape of life”. Would evolution follow the same paths as it had once before? Or would each rewind result in a totally different outcome? To experimentally approach this question, Lenski began in 1988 to cultivate 12 independent E. coli populations, all from the same stock. From this simple experiment, the LTEE (Long Term Evolution Experiment) was born. 35 years later, these 12 populations have evolved independently for over 75,000 generations and have been the subject matter of over 150 studies from researchers all over the world.
Lenski and his collaborators found that the 12 populations show striking similarities in their evolutionary trajectories over time. However, only one of the 12 populations ever evolved the ability to consume citrate. While there is potential for some striking differences, Lenski’s experiments suggest that evolution, under the same general conditions, will proceed in the same general ways.
Lenski and his collaborators have also done pioneering work on digital evolution using Avida, an open-source computational platform for studying artificial life. Using Avida, they showed that the process of evolution can produce complex features from simpler building blocks. Prior to Lenski’s studies, creationists had argued that such a process was impossible.
Lenski earned his B.A., at Oberlin College in Ohio (1976) and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1982). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He then spent a year as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and earned a tenure track position at the University of California in Irvine. He has been a professor at Michigan State University since 1991.
The Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative was established in August 2019 with the aim of uniting a remarkably diverse array of scholars from a variety of disciplines with broad interests and expertise in evolution-related fields.
Rich Lenski

Evolution & Ecology of Lungfishes
2023-02-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green St, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Join Cornell Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Willy Bemis as he explores the evolution and ecology of lungfishes. Lungfishes are a fascinating kind of fish that arose in the Devonian period, over 350 million years ago, and are still around today, they’re the closest living relatives to the first land vertebrates.
The talk will be given live at the Tompkins County Public Library and will also be available via a live Zoom webinar; a link to join live will be sent after registration. The event will also be broadcast on PRI’s YouTube Channel

Darwin Day 2023
2023-02-09 - 2023-02-10 | Campus Universitário, Rodovia BR 101 Norte, KM 60 Bairro Litorâneo, São Mateus, Espírito Santo, 29932540, Brazil
The Brazilian Society of Genetics (SBG) has been encouraging since 2009, the bicentenary year of Darwin’s birth, that Brazilian universities and research institutes organize the Darwin Day event for the debate and dissemination of science in Brazil. In 2023, SBG, through its eastern regional office, will promote Darwin Day in the state of Espírito Santo, with the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) responsible for carrying it out. The event will be held at the UFES campus located in the city of São Mateus/ES on February 9th and 10th. There will be several lectures, science at the bar, and debate about teaching evolution. Come join!

NDSU Darwin Days
2023-02-09 14:00 - 2023-02-10 17:00 | A.G. Hill atrium and auditorium, 1306 Centennial Blvd, Fargo, ND, 58105, United States
Our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Katie Hinde from Arizona State University who will be talking about “Mother’s milk: Debunking myths, exploring evolution and updating medicine. Please join us for our Evolution pop-up museum from 2-5 Thursday (Feb 9) and 10-3:30 Friday (Feb 10). Darwin’s birthday cake will be served at 3:30 on friday and the keynote speech will be at 4pm. All events will be in the Hill building on the NDSU campus.

Science in the Virtual Pub: Devonian Fishes! Darwin Days Panel
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Online, United States
A trio of specialists on fossil fish from the “Age of Fishes” and on the origin of land vertebrates will talk about their research and answer questions about what we know about this fascinating interval of time. The panel is part of PRI’s Science in the Virtual Pub Series.
Panelists:
James Boyle is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Buffalo. He has a special interest in placoderm (armored) fish of the Devonian period and in studying extinction using the fossil record.
Jennifer Olori is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at SUNY Oswego. She studies the origin of the earliest tetrapods and other ancient land vertebrates.
Robert Carr is emeritus professor in the Department of Natural Sciences and Geography at Concordia University Chicago. He specializes in the fossil record and evolution of Devonian fish.

Darwin´s Day CUCBA
2023-02-10 10:00 - 15:00 | Unnamed Venue, Camino Ramón Padilla Sánchez 2100 Nextipac, Zappopan, Jalisco, 45200, Mexico
We aim to celebrate Darwin with conferences given by Biology´s bachelor program professors

UVU Darwin Day 2023
2023-02-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, UT, 84058, United States
Dr. Joseph L Graves will be the Keynote address at 12:00 noon in SB 134. He will do a book signing after his talk on the book “A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains how Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems”
We will have birthday cake and other activities through the day. Come and celebrate with us!

Darwin Day at Arkansas State University
2023-02-10 12:00 - 18:30 | Arkansas State University, 101 North Caraway Road, Jonesboro, AR, 72401, United States
Research seminar at noon in Lab Sciences Complex rm.219 (“Host/parasite co-evolution and the causes of depression and schizophrenia”).
General audience lecture at 5pm in the auditorium of Reng Student Union (“What evolutionary considerations tell us about the future of COVID?”).

Darwin Day at the Norwich Research Park
2023-02-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Bob Champion Research and Education Building, Norwich Research Park, Rosalind Franklin Rd, Norwich , NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom
The Darwin Day at the Norwich Research Park is an event organised every year by Professor Tracey Chapman (School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, norwich, UK) and Professor Mark Pallen (Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich).
This year, the organisers will host
– Dr Jude Piesse (Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK) with the keynote “The ghost in the garden: in search of Darwin’s lost gardenfrom”
– Dr Anders Bergstrom (School of Biological Sciences, UEA, Norwich, UK) with the talk “The call of the wild: the genomic history of wolves and dogs”
– David Gahan (Hanney, Oxfordshire, UK) with the talk “The Eyenigma variations: Darwin, DNA and music”
This is an in person meeting, attendance is free, but registration compulsory at https://tinyurl.com/DarwinNorwich2023
When: Friday 10th February 2023 starting at 2pm (London time)
Where: Bob Champion Research and Education Building – Lecture Theatre 0.21 – Norwich Research Park, Rosalind Franklin Rd, Norwich NR4 7UQ
For queries or further information, contact: lisa.marchioretto@quadram.ac.uk

Quando le balene avevano le zampe
2023-02-10 16:30 - 18:00 | MuMAB – Museo Mare Antico e Biodiversità, San Nicomede, 29, Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma, 43039, Italy
Chi era Charles Darwin? Come può aiutarci a capire da dove provengono le balene?
Camminando nei corridoi del Museo Mare e Antico e Biodiversità, accompagnati da un’esperta guida, potremo scoprire chi era Charles Darwin e capire come sia possibile che le balene, prima, avessero le zampe!
I bambini partecipano senza la presenza dei genitori.
La durata del laboratorio è di circa 1 ora e mezza.

Darwin Day 2023 (Slovenia)
2023-02-10 17:00 - 20:00 | University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 12, Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
The event is organized by the Slovenian Association of Biologists – the central national association that takes care of the reputation and place of biology in our society.
By celebrating Darwin’s Day in Slovenia, we join the activities that take place worldwide during this period as part of “International Darwin’s Day”.
The central Slovenian event will take place on Friday, February 10, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of the University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 12 (the oldest Slovenian University). The main invited speaker will be Assoc. Prof. Božo Frajman, PhD (from the Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria) will give a lecture entitled: »From genes to flowers: the evolution of plant diversity«.

Darwin Days Trivia Night
2023-02-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Ithaca Bakery, 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Come test your knowledge of science and nature! Trivia night questions will be about anything related to Darwin, evolution, and the Age of Fishes (Devonian Period). Prizes for the winning teams. Maximum 6 players per team. No pre-registration required.

Darwin Lecture 2023: "Radical by Nature" by Jim Costa
2023-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, Berlin, Germany
Join biologist and Wallace scholar Prof. James T. Costa, PhD, in marking the bicentennial of the birth of explorer, naturalist, and humanitarian Alfred Russel Wallace for Darwin Day 2023!

Darwin Day Living World Lecture February 10 Features Martha Muñoz
2023-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Earth & Space Sciences Building, Room 001, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, United States
The College of Arts and Sciences Department of Ecology and Evolution will present “Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution,” featuring evolutionary biologist Martha Muñoz, as part of its Living World lecture series in celebration of Darwin Day.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held Friday, February 10, at 7:30 pm in the Earth and Space Sciences Building, Lecture Theatre 001. Darwin Day celebrates the birthday of Charles Darwin and the implications of organic evolution in science and society.
One of the most striking patterns of evolution is its uneven tempo across the tree of life. Whereas some traits and lineages diversify rapidly, others appear to remain inert over millions of years. But why is this so? Munoz will explore this question by focusing on one of evolution’s key architects: behavior. Using Caribbean Anolis lizards as a model system, she will reveal the signatures of behavior at both micro- and macroevolutionary scales and illustrate the constraints on this phenomenon. Behavior can slow or hasten evolution; on occasion, it does both simultaneously.
Muñoz is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and an assistant curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. Her research focuses on uncovering the mechanisms that guide the rate at which evolution unfolds — primarily working in the Caribbean, her research centers on reptiles, amphibians and fish. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, she was an assistant professor at Virginia Tech and did postdoctoral research fellowships at Duke University and the Australian National University.

Darwin Discovery Day
2023-02-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Michigan State University Museum, West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Join us for a celebration of science at the 19th annual Darwin Discovery Day, an opportunity for hands-on exploration and discovery. Take a behind-the scene tour of the natural science collections and bring a rock or fossil in for identification. MSU Museum Natural Science curators, and faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from across MSU will be on hand to share their expertise and enthusiasm with inquiring minds of all ages. This year’s event explores the effects of climate change on plants, animals, and ecosystems.

Darwin Discovery Day at the Michigan State University Museum
2023-02-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Michigan State University Museum, West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Researchers and students from across Michigan State University are coming together at the MSU Museum to celebrate science at the 19th annual Darwin Discovery Day on Saturday, February 11 from 10:00AM – 2:00PM.
Taking inspiration from the 1.5° Celsius exhibition currently on display at the MSU Museum, this year’s Darwin Discovery explores the effects of climate change on plants, animals, and ecosystems. Activities, tours, and special collections will take over all floors of the Museum including behind-the-scenes tours of research collections. Visitors are also invited to bring in a rock or fossil for identification.
Darwin Discovery Day organizer and professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Danita Brandt said, “The face-to-face interactions between our visitors and our team of student and faculty volunteers have always been the most rewarding aspect of this event and we are thrilled to be back with our slate of hand-on activities centered on this very important topic.”
Continue the celebration of science at the Abrams Planetarium with a free screening of Natural Selection a film about Charles Darwin at 3:00PM on Saturday, February 11.

Quando le balene avevano le zampe
2023-02-11 15:00 - 16:30 | MuMAB – Museo Mare Antico e Biodiversità, San Nicomede, 29, Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma, 43039, Italy
Chi era Charles Darwin? Come può aiutarci a capire da dove provengono le balene?
Camminando nei corridoi del Museo Mare Antico e Biodiversità, accompagnati da un’esperta guida, potremo scoprire chi era Charles Darwin e capire come sia possibile che le balene, prima, avessero le zampe!
I bambini partecipano senza la presenza dei genitori.
La durata del laboratorio è di circa 1 ora e mezza.

Darwin Day Lipari XII ed - 2023
2023-02-11 16:30 - 2023-02-12 14:00 | Gattopardo Park Hotel, via Isabella Conti, Lipari, Messina, 98055, Italy
Il Darwin Day più piccolo e appassionato del mondo alla sua 12ma edizione.
Ecco il programma:
Maria Clara Martinelli
Ludwig Pollak. Una storia di archeologia e orrore nazista
Bruno Massa
La biodiversità spiegata in poche parole
Francesca Piro
La placenta, questa sconosciuta
Pietro Lo Cascio
Il lungo viaggio degli Hyperolius
E l’indomani una bellissima “passeggiata darwiniana” tra le bellezze di Lipari

When Worms and Germs Compete, Who Wins?
2023-02-11 18:00 - 21:00 | The Inn at Longshore, 260 Campo Road, Westport, CT, 06880, United States
Join us for cocktail hour, dinner, science quiz (with prizes!), and presentation by Professor Vanessa Ezenwa at the 15th Annual Southern Connecticut Darwin Day Dinner
Humans and animals are rarely infected with a single disease-causing organism at any one time; simultaneous infections are the norm. Historically, infectious diseases have been studied one at a time.
Since most hosts are routinely infected by more than one type of parasite, concurrent infection (or co-infection) has emerged as a key challenge for wild-life, veterinary, and human health. Interactions between parasites co-occurring within a single host have profound effects on infection outcomes ranging from disease severity and progression within individual hosts to patterns of disease spread across populations.
Dr. Ezenwa will discuss the study of concurrent infection and how this perspective is providing new insight into the spread and impact of infectious diseases.
Dr. Ezenwa received a B.A. in Biology from Rice University and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. She held faculty positions at the University of Montana and University of Georgia before moving to Yale in 2021 where she is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animal populations, with a specific focus on linking processes across scales—from cells to ecosystems.
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2023
Time: 6 pm Cocktail Hour, 7 pm Full Course Dinner
At: The Inn at Longshore; 260 Campo Road; Westport, CT 06880
Price: $69 per person ($75 after February 6).

Darwin Family Day at Museum of the Earth
2023-02-11 22:00 | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Celebrate the birthday and works of Charles Darwin with fun activities for the whole family. Come to the Museum of the Earth for family-friendly activities about the Age of Fishes. Learn about armored fish (such as the giant Dunkleosteus!), sharks, lungfishes, and the origin of the fish that are most common today (the bony fishes).
Schedule of Activities:
11 am: “Fishy Story time” in Age of Fishes Gallery. Meet the New Fish at our Museum. Explore fish from different times and make a picture of an ocean full of fish.
11:30 am: Age of Fishes Gallery- Lungfish feeding. Meet our new Lungfish and see her enjoy lunch. Learn all about our new Museum fish.
12p “Fish through the Ages” tour – Learn about how long ago fish lived, how we know about them, and how they changed over time as you tour the Museum with our Shark expert Nico.

Darwin day
2023-02-12 10:00 | Museo Naturalistico Patrizio Rigoni, Viale della vittoria 1 , Asiago, Vicenza , 36012, Italy
Laboratory and games for children aged 7 to 12 inside the Museum
February 12th is the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and to celebrate we want to give children a unique experience: a real morning as a NATURALIST.
Many stuffed animals, normally kept in the Museum’s laboratories, will be available to children and adults. A close observation allows us to study their characteristics and to understand in which environment they evolved.
As true scientists, however, observing is not enough for us, we want to experiment!
Let’s become crossbills, squirrels and voles and play!.
We conclude the experience by “living room”, telling stories of travel, adventures and strange animals!
For more information : https://fb.me/e/2do9NZxNo

Darwin Family Day at Cayuga Nature Center
2023-02-12 10:00 - 17:00 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
The Cayuga Nature Center Lodge is opening for a Family Day to enjoy winter fun! We will be celebrating science and exploring evolution through our exhibits and programs!
Lodge open 10a – 5p
Craft and activity tables 10a – 5p
Amazing Animal Adaptations! Program at 1p
Don’t forget to check out our nature trails and animal ambassadors!
