Adult Forum: "The Darwinian Revolution"
Sep 08, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
Where
In The Clara Barton Parlor515 North Burnett Avenue, Denison, TX, 75021-1806
A Great Courses Series
Now through March 2020
Published 160 years ago, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species—the text that introduced the world to natural selection—is among a handful of books that have changed the world. Born amid a ferment of speculation about evolution- ary scenarios in the early 19th century; vilified and later pronounced dead at the turn of the 20th century; and spectacularly confirmed by discovery after discovery in succeeding decades—natural selection ranks with the theories of Copernicus and Newton for its iconic stature in science.


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