quote:2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his book On the Origin of Species. To mark these events, The Open University invites you to watch a live webcast of their 2009 Annual Lecture which will be followed by a panel discussion. The event will be taking place at 19:30 (GMT/UTC) on Tuesday 17 March.
In his lecture, Professor Dawkins asks whether Darwin was the most revolutionary scientist ever.
Dawkins suggests that there are 5 ‘bridges to evolutionary understanding’. The first 4 of these correspond to the 4 scientists whose work contributed to the theory of evolution by natural selection: Edward Blyth, Patrick Matthew, Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin. The fifth bridge is modern genetics, or ‘digital Darwinism’.