Black Holes, Beakers, and Books: A Popular Science Book Club
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The club suggests the following books that explore the same topics as some of our lectures at Duquesne University and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History:
Sunday, February 8, 2009 (3:30-4:30 pm)
Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne
Related Lectures:
- "Darwin Birthday Lecture" byJanet Browne / February 9, 2009
- “The Origins of Darwin's Origin” by James Lennox / January 16 & 17, 2009
- “Darwin in the History of Ideas: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection”
by Francisco Ayala / March 18, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbonsfeaturing Ann Gibbons as a guest speaker
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Related Lectures:
- “Humans as an evolutionary patchwork” by Alan Walker / February 12, 2009
Darwin's 200th Birthday
- “Is the Human Hand a Serious Evolutionary Topic? Darwin and Bell thought so – maybe we should, too” by Frank Wilson / March 27, 2009, 7 pm
- “Darwinian Medicine: A New Approach to Health and Disease”
by Paul Sherman / February 6 & 7, 2009
- “Documenting Early Primate Evolution: Recent Progress and Recurrent Problems”
by Chris Beard / March 13 & 14, 2009
- “Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective”
by James Adovasio/ April 17 & 18, 2009 -
“Great Steps in the History of Life: Finding an Evolutionary Link between Fishes and Limbed Vertebrates” by Ted Daeschler, February 27 & 28, 2009
