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Darwin Gets Swine Flu:
Celebrating The Origin of Species in an Age of Pandemics
with Carl Zimmer
Thursday,
November 12, 2009
5:30 pm
Yale Peabody Museum Auditorium
November marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. To celebrate the birthday of biology's most important book, science writer Carl Zimmer looks at how Darwin’s theory of evolution has become an essential tool for scientists seeking to understand life in all its complexity—including the emergence of new diseases like swine flu and deadly E. coli outbreaks.
Award-winning science writer Carl Zimmer contributes regularly to The New York Times, Scientific American, Time and many other publications. He is the author of seven books, most recently The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. Zimmer is a lecturer at Yale, where he teaches science writing
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