Darwin Symposium Available for Download at NYBG.org

Posted in Darwin's Garden, Exhibitions on May 15 2008, by Plant Talk

As part of the Charles Darwin exhibition currently featured at The New York Botanical Garden, a special two-part symposium, Darwin: 21st-Century Perspectives, was hosted by NYBG and the American Museum of Natural History. The event was was open to the public and covered many facets of Darwin’s legacy and its implications on science and society. The event was a big success, and many people came to hear the distinguished lineup wax philosophical on one of the greatest scientific minds of the modern era.

For those of you who missed it, however, don’t fret. Both parts of the symposium are available for download at NYBG.org. But that’s not all! Some of the presentations are available to watch online. How cool is that?

Just visit the Darwin: 21st-Century Perspectives page on the Garden’s Web site. There, you will be given the choice to download the symposium as a whole or by individual speakers as an .mp3 file. For those of you with a fast enough connection, you can watch the video.