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                                    Welcome to Our Year of Darwin Celebration of 2009







Evolution: Evidence & Impact



Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”



Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 — the same day as Abraham Lincoln was, an ocean away. Fifty years later, on November 24, 1859, Darwin published his seminal work, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.”

Throughout our year-long celebration of the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the "On the Origin of Species," we hope to communicate the many contemporary applications of



Darwin’s theory of evolution by common descent,

the breadth of Darwin’s research and its ramifications,
 
the truth of Darwin’s work as a cornerstone of modern science and

the multiple applications of evolutionary theory throughout UC research.
 


http://www.uc.edu/darwin/