'Evolution and atheism: best friends forever?', with Jerry Coyne | The Darwin Day Lecture 2016
The Darwin Day Lecture 2016 will be delivered by Professor Coyne, and chaired by Professor Richard Dawkins.
About Jerry Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne, Ph.D is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Coyne received a B.S. in Biology from the College of William and Mary. He then earned a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at Harvard University in 1978, working in the laboratory of Richard Lewontin. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Timothy Prout's laboratory at The University of California at Davis, he took his first academic position as assistant professor in the Department of Zoology at The University of Maryland. In 1996 he joined the faculty of The University of Chicago.
Coyne has written over 115 refereed scientific papers and 130 other articles, book reviews, and columns, as well as a scholarly book about his field (Speciation, co-authored with H. Allen Orr). He is author of Why Evolution is True (a New York Times bestseller), and also Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible. He is a frequent contributor to The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and other popular periodicals.
About Richard Dawkins
Professor Richard Dawkins is a renowned British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. His popular science books include The Selfish Gene (1976), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), and The God Delusion (2006), and he is aso a Vice President of the British Humanist Association.
Doors open at 19:00 for a 19:30 start. Tickets cost £15 for the general public, £12 for BHA members, and only £10 for students.
