Saturday afternoon, we checked out the North Cambridge Family Opera production of "Naturally Selected: A Darwin Bicentennial Revue." The children in the chorus looked excited about showing off their vocal abilities, and the songs (which seemed oddly reminiscent of the Pocahontas soundtrack) were incredibly catchy and fun.
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What forces are driving human evolution? Though scientists have witnessed natural selection of other species in nature and in the lab, our own changes have been a bit of a mystery. At the Harvard Museum of Natural History Thursday night, Pardis Sabeti of Harvard’s Center for Systems Biology explained how we have begun to scan our own genome to uncover evolution at work.
Londonist followed in the footsteps of ambitious Victorian tourist James Patterson by completing the epic Patterson Challenge in 8 hours (and near-blizzard conditions).
While Bostonist already passed on 200th birthday wishes to Charles Darwin, it didn’t seem quite right to end it there. So we decided to peruse some of the Darwin Day fare offered up by this uniquely scientific city. We think ol’ Chuck would’ve been pleased with the diversity of the events we managed to find. After all, if there is no variety within a population, natural selection can’t really lead to speciation…oh, never mind.
On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. Fifty years later, he published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, a book that was met with immediate popularity and controversy for its well-supported assertion that humans are apes who share a common ancestor with other living things. Despite the controversy, rigorous scientific inquiry supported and refined Darwin's work, and even many theologians accepted the idea as a fact that would be compatible with the idea of a Universe created by God.
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