Saturday, March 21, 2009

Zimmer on Darwin

Carl Zimmer is a writer of popular science. I enjoy his book. Here's a video of him from February 14, 2009 giving a talk to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.

There are lots of interesting bits in this video. My favourite is the talk at the end about Neanderthals and the brief glimpse of a modern reconstruction of a Neanderthal's head:



Here's the Time Magazine article that Zimmer wrote and references in his talk.

Here's a post on Zimmer's latest book.

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