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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
October 3rd, 2010A lecture and book signing by Richard Dawkins
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
http://richarddawkins.net/
Sunday, October 3, 2010
2:00 p.m. in Page Auditorium
While all tickets for the Richard Dawkins lecture in Page Auditorium have been distributed, the presentation will be broadcast live in the Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center.
The broadcast in Griffith is free of charge; however, tickets are required.
Tickets are available at the Duke University Box Office online at tickets.duke.edu, by phone 919-684-4444, or in person weekdays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Box Office is located in the Bryan University Center. Transaction fees will apply to all phone and internet charges.
This event is cosponsored by Provost Peter Lange, Chancellor Victor J. Dzau, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, the Center for Philosophy of Biology and the Departments of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Philosophy.
Richard Dawkins FRS held the first Chair of the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is the author of ten books: The Selfish Gene (1976, 2nd Ed 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil’s Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor’s Tale (2004), The God Delusion (2006) and The Greatest Show on Earth (2009). Currently, he is working on a children’s book about the beauty of science for publication in the Fall of 2011. The Wall Street Journal said his “passion is supported by an awe-inspiring literary craftsmanship.” The New York Times Book Review has hailed him as a writer who “understands the issues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too.”
Dr. Dawkins will discuss his book and follow the presentation with a book signing. According to Dr. Dawkins the book is the “missing link” in his writings as it “…is my personal summary of the evidence that the ‘theory’ of evolution is actually a fact – as incontrovertible a fact as any in science.”
Please note that any unclaimed pre-ordered tickets will be forfeited and released 15 minutes before the beginning of the event.
After the lecture, Richard Dawkins will sign copies of his book, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. The Gothic Bookshop will be at Page Auditorium to sell copies of the book. Cash, check, credit cards, and Flex will be accepted as payment.