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Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, and Andrew Berry, a concentration adviser and lecturer in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, celebrate Darwin’s 200th Birthday before their History of Science and Evolutionary Biology class inside Harvard Hall. Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office |
The evolution of DarwinIn a fitting celebration of a man whose ideas revolutionized science, Harvard marked Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday in style yesterday. There was a campuswide read-a-thon of “The Origin of Species,” a roving gorilla, three bushy-bearded Darwin imitators, an afternoon symposium, and a nighttime birthday blast at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub rocked by science-themed bands. |
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