Darwin200 goes live.
The UK Darwin200 community website has just gone live. The site is still undergoing some revision, but you'll get the picture. Click "Who is involved" to see, um, well, who is involved. The site will serve as a portal to the full flurry of UK-based Darwinia during the 2008-9 anniversary period. And just in case you didn't know, we're not just celebrating Darwin's 200th birthday on 12 February 2009, we're also trumpeting the 150th anniversary of the joint reading of Charles Darwin's and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers at the Linnaean Society of London in July 1859, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in November 2009. Three cheers goin' out to Charles Darwin for timing the significant events of his life with a view towards the future publicity opportunity offered by three sequential anniversaries.
2 Comments:
Is Darwin200 competing Darwinday.org?
Martin: no. Our aims are complimentary. Darwin200 is coordinating events in the UK, we can talk to our fellow event organisers, make sure we're not duplicating or tripping over one another. Sum of the parts, and all that. Once 2009 becomes 2010, Darwin200 will be redundant. Darwinday will continue to coordinate annual Darwin Day events around the world.
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