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Regional Library hosts from tomorrow, and until 6 November, the shows' now Darwin / Darwin now. "
The exhibition explores the origins of Darwin's book highlights their central ideas and explains why they continue to occupy a privileged position in contemporary biology and medicine, all through 15 display panels.
The exhibition also shows the reactions of his contemporaries to the theory of evolution and its influence in very different fields ranging from geology to economics.
During the nineteenth century saw a transformation in thinking whose effects are manifest even today.
The mechanisms of nature and the variety of living things arose in entirely new ways and that underlie all modern biology.
The ultimate implications of these ideas are controversial.
A man and a book came to symbolize the new evolutionary biology.
Charles Darwin, born in 1809, was fifty when he published what is probably the most famous scientific work ever written.
Therefore, 2009 marks both the bicentennial of his birth and 150 years since the appearance of his work 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. "
The exhibition is organized by British Council's international program called 'Darwin Now', in collaboration with the Regional Library of Murcia.
The show will reach more than 25 countries worldwide during 2009 to celebrate the 200th birthday of Darwin (February 12) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'The Origin of Species "(Nov. 24) .
Source: CARM
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