Cafe Scientifique: Evolution, Darwin - 200 Years Old: What Has Happened?
January 28 2009 07:46:23 AM
Sponsored by The Ballston Science and Technology Alliance
Date: February 3, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: The Front Page Restaurant, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Fee: $6; includes all-you-can-eat buffet
As every school child knows, Charles Darwin (and Alfred Russell Wallace) provided a provocative explanation for many of the regularities, which were well known characteristics of the fossil record. The explanation: evolution by natural (and sexual) selection. What school children and probably most adults don’t know is that Darwin, long before release of “On the Origin of Species,” was focused as much on the behavior of species as on the bodily plan forms that were found in the fossil record. In fact, close reading of Darwin’s writings show his profound fascination with behavior, and this included the behavior of the only species capable of generating his theory—humans. Thus, as we celebrate Darwin’s 200th birthday and the nearly 140th anniversary of his “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex", Café Scientifique will consider Darwin’s theory as it applies to human beings.
Hear from Dr. Dennis K. McBride 
, the Academic President of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, headquartered in Arlington, VA. He is also an active adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Medical School and its Public Policy Institute. McBride has written, spoken and debated widely on evolutionary psychology.
For more information, send an email to: kbreen@arlingtonva.us
Online registration can be found at:
http://www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com/registration_forms/event_detail_web2lead.cfm?event_ID=4641
