Past Event
Friday, June 16, 2017, 11 a.m. to noon
Lecture: Darwin in the Deep
8610 Kennel Way, San Diego, 92037
Cost: Free
Lecture by Scripps Oceanography’s 2017 William E. and Mary B. Ritter Memorial Fellowship winner Rodolfo John Alaniz of UC Berkeley’s Department of History titled “Darwin in the Deep: How Marine Biology Created & Destroyed 19th-Century Natural Selection."
The 19th Century was the era of marine biology. The debate over natural selection as a dominant biological question of the age originated from the study of the oceans. This lecture traces the ways that evolutionary theories were tied to marine science, especially the newer fields of deep-sea biology and marine geology—and even the birth of the Scripps Institution itself. Reception follows.