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Darwin 2009 commemorations Darwin Day 12 February 2009. The year 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859) and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth (12 February 1809). This page on Darwin Online aims to list the associated worldwide events and publications. Submissions for this list should be emailed to Dr John van Wyhe jmv21@cam.ac.uk in the form: 'day month year title. Sponsor/venue. Link.' Items are loosely grouped into 'Events', 'Publications' and 'Films and documentaries'. Although this list is currently very far from comprehensive, it is probably the largest list of worldwide Darwin events in 2009. Many more such events lots of excitement this week on blogs all around and other fans of reality. Darwin Day in the Blogosphere. Be part of XTractor community. XTractor the first of its kind - Literature alert service , provides manually curated & annotated se...

Darwin's private papers online - the largest publication of Darwin's papers in history. Read about it here . Browse the papers here . The complete works of Charles Darwin -- a god among scientists and the bane of every creationist’s existence – are finally available for anyone, anywhere to read. And it only took 126 years and another scientific revolution to make it happen. Cambridge University , where Darwin studied theology, has digitized and published on the internet its collection of some 30,000 items and 90,000 images by the man who changed the course of science by writing the evolutionary primer, The Origin of Species , in 1859. Cambridge was given the collection by the Darwin family and Pilgrim Trust after World War II. As described in 1960 : They were in parcels each containing small packets of manuscript wrapped in tissue paper on which the subjects had been noted in Darwin's hand. They were presumably just as Darwin left them, and accordingly this arrangem...

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