Table 1 Scientists that have spoken at Darwin Day since 2008 and titles of their lectures from 2009–2016
From: Darwin Day in deep time: promoting evolutionary science through paleontology
Year and theme | Guest speakers | Talk titles |
|---|---|---|
2016: paleontology | Neil Shubin, Ph.D. | Your Inner Fish: a journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body |
Andrew Kramer, Ph.D. | Anti-evolutionism and human paleontology: a conversation | |
Blaine Schubert, Ph.D. | From rhinos to mastodonts: the gray fossil site of Tennessee | |
Stephanie Drumheller, Ph.D. | Not just living fossils: crocodylian evolution and diversity from the age of dinosaurs to the present | |
Sandy Kawano, Ph.D. | Breathing life into fossils: living fishes and salamanders provide clues to the evolutionary invasion of land | |
2015: biogeography | Alan de Queiroz, Ph.D. | A world shaped by astonishing events: darwin, creationism, and the geography of life |
Joseph Panzik, Ph.D. | Earth: an evolving planet | |
A.C. Sandy Echternacht, Ph.D. | Messing with mother nature: introduced species | |
Colin Sumrall, Ph.D. | On the origin of birds: did the age of the dinosaurs ever end? | |
2014: Alfred Russell Wallace | Andrew Berry, Ph.D. | Darwin-Wallace Day? |
Nicholas Matzke, Ph.D. | The intelligent design debate | |
2013: communicating science | Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D. | Effective science communication |
Camille Parmesan, Ph.D. | Conservation in a time of rapid climate change | |
2012: no official theme | Rosemary Gillespie, Ph.D. | Inspiration from Islands for understanding evolution |
Harry Greene, Ph.D. | Natural history, aesthetics, and conservations | |
2010: history of evolutionary theory | William E. Friedman, Ph.D. | A Darwinian look at Darwin’s evolutionist ancestors |