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Several events celebrating Darwin Day are planned at 网曝吃瓜 Feb. 11-12, including a lecture on Darwin by internationally recognized evolutionary biologist Michael F. Whiting, research poster presentations on an evolutionary theme, a panel discussion, a teachers鈥� workshop and a film on the creationism-evolution debate.

These events are free and open to the public and are sponsored by the 网曝吃瓜 Department of Biological Sciences, 网曝吃瓜 Cultural Affairs Committee and the Idaho Museum of Natural History.

In addition, the Idaho Museum of Natural History is concurrently featuring the new exhibit 鈥淒arwin鈥檚 Green Side: Discoveries in Evolutionary Botany.鈥�

This year鈥檚 Darwin Day on Feb. 12 celebrates Charles Darwin鈥檚 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of Darwin鈥檚 most famous book on evolutionary science, 鈥淥n the Origin of the Species.鈥� There are currently 282 Darwin Day events scheduled in 31 countries. For more information on Darwin Day, visit www.darwinday.org.

Darwin Day activities planned at 网曝吃瓜 are:

鈥� Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 7 to 7:30 p.m., 网曝吃瓜 research poster presentations that feature aspects of evolutionary science. The poster sessions will be held in the lobby of Frazier Hall.

鈥� Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., Brigham Young University鈥檚 Michael F. Whiting, Ph.D., will deliver the keynote presentation 鈥淐harles Darwin and the Tree of Life鈥� in Frazier Hall鈥檚 Bilyeu Theatre. Whiting is a professor of biology in the BYU School of Life Sciences, curator of arthropods and director of BYU鈥檚 DNA Sequencing Center.  As a principal investigator or co-principal investigator he has been awarded more than $10 million in research and instrumentation grants. He has published 98 articles and book chapters, and is listed as first author on 23 of those.

 Visit http://lifesciences.byu.edu/old/FacStaff/default.aspx?ID=84 for more information on Whiting.

鈥� Wednesday, Feb. 11, 8:30 p.m., following Whiting鈥檚 presentation, there will be a panel discussion featuring experts in evolution from a variety of scientific fields who will field questions about evolution including what it is, how it works and why it is important to understand.

鈥� Thursday, Feb. 12, 4 p.m., showing of the film 鈥淎 Flock of Dodos鈥� at the 网曝吃瓜 Lecture Center Room 10 (网曝吃瓜 Building 67 located behind the Beckley Nursing Building). This is a documentary film by American marine biologist and filmmaker Randy Olson. It highlights the debate between proponents of the concept of intelligent design and the near scientific consensus that supports evolution.

鈥� Thursday, Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m., a reception with refreshments for participants in LC10.

鈥� Thursday, Feb. 12, 6 p.m., a teacher workshop and symposium on how to teach evolution in LC10.

For more information on 网曝吃瓜 Darwin Day activities contact Michael Thomas, Ph.D., at (208) 282-2396 or mthomas@isu.edu; or Heath Ogden, Ph.D., at (208) 282-3391 or ogdet@isu.edu.