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SUMMARY:On the Origin of Species
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DESCRIPTION:150th anniversary celebration with Dr Robert Callow.\n\nOne h
 undred and fifty years ago\, on 24 November 1859\, the publisher John Mu
 rray delivered\, to a largely unsuspecting world\, 1250 copies of Charle
 s Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the
  Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Modestly bound
  in green cloth and lacking eye-catching illustrations\, it was a book t
 o be taken seriously. Making no attempt to explain the origin of life or
  the nature of human existence\, it nevertheless punctured the veil of c
 oncealment fostered by centuries of theological introspection. As James 
 Hutton had done for rocks\, so Darwin did for organisms: the living and 
 the dead. Evidence is all around us\; we have only to open our eyes. Thi
 s talk celebrates this milestone in understanding and provides a perspec
 tive on Darwin's achievement. Part of The Evolutionist\, our Darwin extr
 avaganza.\n
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Phone: 0161-27526
 48\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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