The Department of Biological Sciences is hosting a series of seminars on the work of Charles Darwin to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of his birth, and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species". Each of the following seminars will take place at 12:45pm in Gibbet Hill Lecture Theatre 1:

Date	Speaker	Topic
9 October	Georgy Koentges (Warwick)	Evolution of neck and shoulder development
16 October	William Amos (Cambridge)	The story of whales: how did evolution achieve so much so fast?
23 October	Richard Ffrench-Constant (Exeter)	Molecular basis of natural selection in insects: sex, drugs and molecular biology
30 October	John Parker (Cambridge)	Henslow legacy: Darwin's inheritance
6 November	Peter Holland FRS (Oxford)	Genes, genomes and animal evolution
13 November	Mark Jobling (Leicester)	Y chromosomes and human evolution
20 November	Clive Gamble (Royal Holloway)	Evolution of the human social mind
27 November	John Allen (Queen Mary)	The photosynthetic origin of free oxygen
4 December	Bambos Kyriacou (Leicester)	Evolution of circadian rhythms
11 December	Michael Akam FRS (Cambridge)	Arthropods and the invasion of the land

The seminars will last for approximately 1 hour. They are free, and all are welcome to attend.