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Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin & the Rise of Evolutionary Theory
Organized by the National Library of Medicine and the Office of NIH History
February 2 through June 15, 2009
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Rotunda Gallery
Open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed weekends and holidays.
Free. Photo ID required.
On February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. Fifty years later, on November 22, 1859, On the Origin of Species was put on sale to the public.
Radical in sweep, Darwin’s theory of naturally innovating and endlessly changing webs of life laid bare the deep connections within the living world—and implicated humanity as deeply as any other species. Darwin rewrote the book of nature, and forced us to rethink our own place within it. One hundred and fifty years later, we still struggle to comprehend the world that Darwin made.
To mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking work, the National Library of Medicine and the Office of NIH History have created an exhibition that focuses on Darwin’s books, the development of his theory, and the history of evolutionary discourse from the late eighteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth.
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