By RADIO NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL
Added: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:00:00 UTC

Thanks to Gary Walsh for the link.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/the_darwin_lectures

The Darwin Lectures

150 years ago, Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution were first announced in public - to a meeting of the Linnean Society in London. Oddly, almost no one noticed!

It might not have helped that the joint paper (with Alfred Russell Wallace) was given the ripping title 'On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection'.

A year later when the book came out everyone realised just what a big bang it was in terms of ideas. The paper, the book, and now the radio lecture series…

From Sunday 24 August 2008, Radio New Zealand explores the ideas of Darwin and their impact. This six-part series from the Royal Society plays in our Sunday Feature slot, and features some of New Zealand's most eminent scientists.

Lecture 1 - Darwin and the Evolution of an Idea

Professor Lloyd Spenser Davis, University of Otago

In the last 2000 years there has been one idea, above all else, that has altered the way we view the world and our place in it. That idea is evolution by natural selection and the originator of the idea was Charles Darwin

Recorded 19 August in Napier (duration: 50:45)
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TAGGED: DARWIN, EVOLUTION, SPEECHES