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	*Darwin's* *Day*

While preparing the great international celebration that will take place on 12th February 2009, Darwin's day is being commemorated worldwide with a variety of activities aiming to spread scientific knowledge among the citizens. The University of Valencia (UVEG) has a centennial tradition of this commemoration. In 1909, a group of Medicine students decided to honour the centenary of Charles Robert Darwin's birthday with a public ceremony and a special issue of the magazine Tribuna Médica dedicated to the author of The Origin of Species.

	It's 22nd February 1909, and a large picture of Darwin's dominates the University main hall, which is crowded with students longing to hear the words of Peregrin Casanova (Anatomy professor), Miguel de Unamuno (Chancellor of the University of Salamanca), and professors Juan Bartual and Eduard Boscà. La Actualidad, number 136 Documents from the López Piñero Research Institute for Science History and Documentation (CSIC-UVEG)


*Dia de Darwin 2006*
Wednesday February, 15^th 19.00 h MOVIE SHOW & DISCUSSION - CINEFÒRUM AL VIVES Auditori Muntaner, Col·legi Major Lluís Vives (Campus de Blasco Ibáñez) Inherit the wind Stanley Kramer (USA 1960)

Thursday February, 16^th 10.00 h EVOLUTIVE BIOLOGY & BIODIVERSITY PhD Seminar Research Building, Burjassot-Paterna Campus Interactions between chromosomic evolution and gene divergence in mammals Arcadi Navarro i Cuartiellas Evolutive Biology Unit, Health & Experimental Sciences Department, Pompeu Fabra University 12.30 h LECTURE, BURJASSOT-PATERNA CAMPUS Aulari interfacultatiu The role of natural selection in the origin of language: the evidence of Atapuerca Ignacio Martínez Mendizábal Member of the Atapuerca Research Group. Alcalá de Henares University. Institute of Human Evolution and Behaviour (Complutense University - Carlos III Institute)
This is an activity co-organised by the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutive Biology (UVEG), the Faculty of Biology and Lluís Vives Hall of Residence, sponsored by CAM and supported by the Catalan Biology Society and the Catalan Studies Institute