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Day School talk: The day the time barrier was broken

The Evolutionist, a Darwin extravaganza at The Manchester Museum
Dates:13 November 2009
Times:18:00 - 19:30
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:Manchester Museum
How much:Free
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  • The Evolutionist, a Darwin extravaganza at The Manchester Museum

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Human evolution began 150 years ago on 27 April 1859. On that afternoon Joseph Prestwich and John Evans found stone tools in undisturbed gravels and so broke the shackles of a short creationist timescale for human history. Professor Clive Gamble will review the events of that day in a remarkable year made famous by Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The demonstration of a great antiquity for humans had far reaching implications and 150 years later we can put them into perspective by reviewing what we now know or our earliest beginnings.

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