TUESDAY: 'Evolving a Genius: The Extraordinary Early Life of Charles Darwin'

Charles Darwin was an indifferent student well into his undergraduate years at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. Given this undistinguished background, how did he become transformed into a man of exceptional intellectual insight and produce a theory so powerful that it dramatically altered our view of the living world?

Archaeologist  and scholar Douglas W. Schwartz traces the unique set of events that ultimately laid the foundation for Darwin’s distinctive genius. This presentation is one of many that will be offered as part of UC's Darwin Sesquicentennial Celebration.

What: “Evolving a Genius: The Extraordinary Early Life of Charles Darwin” — A special talk to honor the recent 200th birthday of Charles Darwin
When: Feb. 17, 2009, 4 p.m.
Where: Engineering Research Center, Room 427, UC’s Uptown Campus
Who: Doug Schwartz, archaeologist, former School for Advanced Research president, current SAR senior scholar

An open reception follows the presentation, which is free and open to the public.

Schwartz has had a long-term research interest in the origins of Charles Darwin’s creativity. He is president emeritus at the School for Advanced Research and currently a senior scholar at the school. The

School for Advanced Research

was established in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1907 as a center for the study of the archaeology and ethnology of the American Southwest. Since 1967, the scope of the school's activities has embraced a global perspective through programs to encourage advanced scholarship in anthropology and related social science disciplines and the humanities.

About UC’s Year of Darwin 2009 — Evolution: Evidence & Impact
Throughout UC's year-long celebration of the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the On the Origin of Species, we hope to communicate the many contemporary applications of

• Darwin’s theory of evolution by common descent, 
• the breadth of Darwin’s research and its ramifications, 
• the truth of Darwin’s work as a cornerstone of modern science and 
• the multiple applications of evolutionary theory throughout UC research.

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