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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Provost Lecture - Carl Zimmer: Darwin, From Birth to Death


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In celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday, Professor Zimmer discussed the work of one of Darwin's great followers, the late Stony Brook University biologist and faculty emeritus George Williams, who died in September 2010. The internationally renowned Williams demonstrated how natural selection could help make sense of every stage in the lives of all living things, including humankind — from birth through childhood to adulthood and finally old age and death. As a result of these seminal ideas, an importan

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