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Darwin and Jimenez de la Espada approach schools (10/11/2009)

Murcia City Council, through the Department of Culture and European Programmes, directed Fátima Barnuevo, wanted to bring more students Murcia parallels the lives of two great figures of science, Charles Darwin, whose Birth marks the bicentennial, and the Cartagena Marcos Jiménez de la Espada.

In addition to extensive exhibition at the Science Museum and the Water of Murcia, the Department of Culture and European Programmes organized, thanks to funding FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) and the Seneca Foundation Region of Murcia, a traveling exhibit to be displayed in different schools in Murcia.

The general contents of the exhibition are:

Description of the Beagle voyage, Darwin's biography, the same conclusions: the theory of evolution.

Travel Details of the Scientific Committee of the Pacific, biography Jiménez de la Espada, and results of the expedition.

Approach to the theory of evolution, through its evidence more accessible to visitors: Origin of Species, fossil evidence, anatomical evidence and embryonic biogeographic evidence, mutations, natural selection and speciation.

The road show begins in the IES Graduate Cascales and will be released in a total of 10 centers of Murcia until next March 2010.

IES Graduate Cascales.

Will be on display from 9 to 13 November.

IES El Carmen, from 16 to 20 November.

Colegio Santa María del Carmen, 23 to 30 November.

Canadas IES Eras (Molina de Segura), from 1 to 10 December.

Cipriano College Galea, from 14 to 18 December.

IES Mariano Baquero, Murcia.

IES Floridablanca, Murcia.

Alquibla IES, La Alberca.

IES Ramon y Cajal, Murcia.

IES Marqués de Los Vélez, El Palmar.