A Good End to Darwin Day

ByCarl Zimmer
Published February 13, 2009

I’m just back to my hotel after my Darwin Day talk–a fine, big crowd showed up that included at least a few fellow science bloggers (Bora and Reed, to name two). And if you can handle…just…one…morewafer-thin Darwin-related experience, please check out my essay, “Darwin Evolving” in the new issue of Time. In honor of his birthday, I take a look at Darwin’s legacy, and the new directions evolutionary biology is taking today.

“We can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history,” he wrote at the end of On the Origin of Species. He saw his work not as the end of biology but as a beginning.

Read the rest here.