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SUMMARY:Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009 - Professor Marsha Richmond\, D
 ept of History\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, Michigan
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CONTACT:Clare Kitcat
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge played host to the grand Darwin Celebration of 1909\
 , and will do so again in 2009 to commemorate the bicentenary of Darwin’
 s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species.
   These two centenary guideposts provide the historian an opportunity to a
 ssess the differing perspectives of Darwin’s theory of evolution\, espec
 ially as it pertains to genetics.  This lecture will review Darwin’s vie
 w of heredity—the 1868 “provisional hypothesis of pangenesis”--and e
 xplore how changing understanding of heredity and the hereditary material 
 over the past century and a half (comparing the state of affairs in 1909 w
 ith 2009) has tempered our understanding of evolution by natural selection
 .
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Centre\, Christ's College
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