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8 September, 2014
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History of Science, Ideas & Technology Group Inc
Date/Time: Monday, 8 September 2014, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace Campus
Cost: Gold coin donation
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Alfred Russel Wallace and the thin red evolutionary line
Speaker: Brian McGowran, Visiting Fellow at the University of Adelaide
Supper available
Ideas approaching the theory of evolution and the reality of immense geologic time were already in existence in the century before Darwin and Wallace independently produced the theory of evolution by natural selection. Evolution became simultaneously fact, theory and research program, taking almost another century to become generally accepted whilst Wallace held the line almost alone on natural selection. Perhaps the greatest in an age of great naturalists, Wallace was a pioneering synthesizer of zoogeography.
Contact: Dr Pauline Payne, President, History of Science, Ideas and Technology Group, Business: +61 8 8361 8040
