Evolution Festival

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Highlighting our work marking Darwin’s anniversaries in 2009:

  • his 200th birthday
  • the naming of the Port of Darwin 170 years ago and;
  • the publication of On the Origin of Species 150 years ago.

Our work on Evolution The Festival was supported by the Commonwealth Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research.

Evolution Festival

Evolution in November—Superhuman, genes and The Origin’s birthday

In this bulletin for the Evolution Festival there are some spectacular activities to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the book that brought Darwin’s theory of evolution to the public.

We’d also welcome your thoughts on how to mark the anniversary in the media.

The anniversary is on 24 November. We’re planning on getting comments from leading scientists on what we’re likely to be celebrating on the 200th anniversary in 2059 or the 250th in 2109.

Evolution Festival, Fresh Science

Fool’s gold reveals the ancient evolution of life on earth

‘Fool’s gold’ has tricked many amateur gold miners, but Queensland researchers have discovered it can reveal much about the early evolution of life on Earth.
Three billion years ago the Earth couldn’t support life as we know it – the atmosphere was deadly to oxygen-breathing plants and animals.
But two and half billion years ago life changed […]

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