SIU Darwin Week

02/11/2022

Tonight is the night of the Darwin Week 2022 keynote address! Join us by Zoom or at Guyon Auditorium in Morris Library at 7pm! We will also have Darwin merch for sale!

Visit darwinweek.siu edu for the Zoom link.

02/10/2022

Be sure to check out the Herbarium and Darwin Week Art Display located at Art Alley in the Student Center. This display will be up for the month of February.

02/09/2022

Darwin Week kicks off tomorrow!

01/31/2022

01/20/2022

The 2022 Darwin Week celebration is just around the corner! Mark your calendars for February 9-10.

February 9th the celebration includes a research symposium, art contest/reception, and evolution themed game night!

February 10th we will host Dr. Erika Edwards of Yale University for a hybrid keynote talk. Time and location details below.

Also register to display your unique art works using this link: https://forms.gle/jncYVu35B5PFWkudA

February 9:
Research Symposium & Art Contest Reception: 6pm, Student Center Auditorium

Game Night: 7:30pm, Student Center International Lounge

February 10:
Hybrid Keynote Address: 7pm, Morris Library - Guyon Auditorium and by Zoom.

07/16/2021

Beagle voyage expert Gordon Chancellor has written a detailed introduction to one of Darwin's most important yet least known books- The Zoology of the Beagle (1838-1843).

http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Chancellor_ZoologyoftheBeagle.html

05/30/2021

For many years this framed photograph of Charles Darwin hung on the end of a book case in the Old Library of Christ's College, Cambridge. Also inside the frame, just below the photograph, a small rectangular opening in the mount displayed the signature 'Ch. Darwin'.

This photograph was taken about one year after Darwin started full-time work on his species theory in 1855 by Maull and Polyblank for the Literary and Scientific Portrait Club.

A Darwin letter to J. D. Ho**er on 27 May 1855 refers to this photograph:

"if I really have as bad an expression, as my photograph gives me, how I can have one single friend is surprising."

http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_MaullandPolyblankPhoto.html

05/04/2021

A newly recorded Darwin publication as well as all the German translations of his articles in the periodical Kosmos.

Also the original publication of Darwin's famous 1873 letter about his belief, or uncertainty about, God, in a Dutch article by the original recipient.

http://darwin-online.org.uk/whatsnew.html

04/03/2021

03/27/2021

Darwin’s “first paper 2d year in Edinburgh” On the ova of the Flustra was read on 27 March 1827.

Darwin recalled in his autobiography,
“…I also became friends with some of the Newhaven fishermen, and sometimes accompanied them when they trawled for oysters, and thus got many specimens. But from not having had any regular practice in dissection, and from possessing only a wretched microscope, my attempts were very poor. Nevertheless I made one interesting little discovery, and read, about the beginning of the year 1826 [1827], a short paper on the subject before the Plinian Society. This was that the so-called ova of Flustra had the power of independent movement by means of cilia, and were in fact larvæ”

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=EUL-%5B1%5D&viewtype=text

The first complete transcription of Darwin’s Edinburgh notes on marine life, which includes a list of fifty-six species of insects compiled between 1828-1829 and botanical notes while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge can be found here:

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=CUL-DAR118.-&pageseq=2

03/25/2021

’s stamp on island-dwelling ||

On islands in and around the , 173 species of lizards face an array of different environments, predators, and competitors, along with periodic .

The result is a laboratory of evolution, where scientists have been able to track the speed and course of adaptation.

www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/meet-lizard-man-reptile-loving-biologist-tackling-some-biggest-questions-evolution

Lizards, toepads, and the ghost of hurricanes past
Raymond B. Huey & Peter R. Grant. 2020.
DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006297117