Two evenings of Darwin: Tuesday and Thursday, May 6 and 8

While a student at Cambridge University, Charles Darwin was so enthralled by the study of plants he took the sole botany course three times. His later work with plants was central to his revolutionary ideas about natural selection. Until the end of his life, he made a habit of rising early to walk in his garden at Down House outside London.

So it is fitting that the symposium Darwin: 21st-Century Perspectives begins next month at The New York Botanical Garden through a rare collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History. Generously underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Coleman P. Burke and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Cullman, two evenings of presentations and panel discussions will explore Darwin and his legacy.

On Tuesday, May 6, The New York Botanical Garden will host "Darwin: Yesterday and Today." On Thursday, May 8, the American Museum of Natural History will present "Human Evolution and the Complexity of Living Organisms." Both sessions will be moderated by world-renowned entomologist E. O. Wilson, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and professor emeritus at Harvard, and will conclude with questions from the audience.

A complementary exhibition, Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, will be on view at the Botanical Garden from April 25 through June 15. Darwin, the groundbreaking AMNH exhibition, continues to travel around the world and is currently on view in Tokyo through June 22 and in Toronto through August 5.

Darwin: 21st-Century Perspectives

Tuesday, May 6, at the NYBG

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Thursday, May 8, at the AMNH

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