Tuesday 3 November 2009
Tomorrow:
Time: 12.30p.m.
Place: Interfaculty Lecture Hall. Burjassot Paterna Campus
Presentation of the illustrated commemorative edition of the species by the illustrator and the editors of the text, Carles Puche Juli Peretó and Andrés Moya.
Screening of a documentary about Darwin
Afternoon:
Science Space: tribute to the Darwin family
Time: 18.00 p.m.
Place: Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània (12 Sant Ferran St)
Mercè Piqueras Conference: More about Ms. Darwin than about Mr. Darwin (or Emma Darwin, a great woman behind a great man).
Time: 19.30 p.m.
Emma Darwin Conference: Creative thinking, the Darwin family in Science and the Arts (with simultaneous translation)
Conferencies series
- Darwin Now and Here. The validity of Darwin’s Legacy
- "Darwin's inheritance: non-human animals subject to rights?"
by Javier de Lucas Faculty of Law and The Institute of Human Rights, Universitat de València
Date: 30 June 2009
Time: 19.00 p.m.
Place: el Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània (OCCC) de Valencia
12 Sant Ferran St. València
Tel.: 963157799
Free entrance
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Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània
Acció Cultural del País Valencià
- Darwin to D@rwin
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Time 12.30 p.m.
Place: Conference Room of the Eduardo Boscà Library. Burjassot-Paterna Campus
Darwin and Wallace, A noble scientific Competence
by Manuel Costa Talens
Important note: Rosa de Frutos conference, scheduled for the 21st has been cancelled and will be replaced by Professor Manuel Costa Talens.
- Conferencies series: The Legacy of Prometheus
Conference: Lichens as bioindicators of forest health and global change
Eva Barreno Rodríguez
Date: Thursdy, May 21, 2009
Time: 9.30 p.m.
Place: Aula CAM "La Llotgeta" Plaça del Mercat, 4 València
Date: 19 May 2009
Time: 19 p.m.
Place: Salón de Actos Museo de Prehistoria
Where is the museum?
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- Darwinismo and Human Evolution
Dr. Jose María Bermúdez de Castro
Director of the National Center for Research Human Evolution
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Date: May 12, 2009
Hora: 11 p.m.
Place: Salón de Actos Joan Fuster
- Darwin: Autobiography, text and context
Dr. Justo Serna Alonso (Universitat de València)
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- Darwin to D@rwin Cycle
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Place: Conference Room of the Eduardo Boscà Library. Burjassot- Paterna Campus
Campus Burjassot-Paterna
Date change
Javier de Lucas’ conference: Darwin's Heritage: non-human animals subject to rights?
Scheduled for May 6, 2009 has been moved to June 30, 2009.
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- The beginnings of life
Inaugural Conference of the Book Fair
For most of Earth's history, life has been invisible. Bacterial communities have shaped the planet's surface and atmosphere over billions of years. Everything and the insignificance of these microorganisms, represent forms of life very diverse and original, adapted to the most unusual environments that can imagine. Many of the activities we associate with multicellular organisms, such as fungi, plants or animals - reproduction, predation, movement, sex and more - are truly ancient bacterial inventions. Long before the evolutionary appearance of animals and simpler plants, bacteria had already written the first chapters of life history.
Lynn Margulis (Chicago, 1938) is professor of Geoscience at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and co-director of NASA's Department of Planetary Biology. He is a member of numerous renowned academies and institutions, editorial committees and responsibilities, including: the American Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, the Linnean Society, the Society for Research and Education in Earth Systems Science, the Catalan Society of Biology, Journal of Molecular Evolution (1980-1984), Journal of Theoretical Biology (1979-1984), Biosystems (1979-1993), International Microbiology (1998- ).
He has published numerous articles and books, as well as all kinds of didactic materials and specific publications on scientific dissemination. "Cinco reinos", "El origen de la célula", "Microcosmo", "Biosferas: metamorfosis del planeta tierra", "Qué es la vida?, "Qué es el sexo?" "Planeta Simbiótico: un nuevo punto de vista sobre la evolución", "Piezas Luminosos, historias de amor y ciencia".
The first complete version of his "theory of serial endosymbiosis" was published in 1967 under the name Origin of Mitosing Cells in the Journal of Theoretical Biology after having been rejected fifteen times. After thirty years of study and research, his theory is accepted without criticism and today he likes to boast that he has won three of the four battles of his theory. Billions of years ago four ancestors, bacteria, independent and physically separate, fused in a specific order to become a new type of creature. Only the symbiotic origin of the motility apparatus remains to be proven, but Lynn Margulis has predicted that she will also win this discussion in a decade.
He thinks that one of the reasons that the acceptance of symbiogenesis has been delayed is that it directly clashes with common and respected assumptions. Her work on microbial symbionts brought her to criticize and then revise the biological classification, and so she entered taxonomy, the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms. His description, which is intended to reflect evolutionary history, comprises a classification into two levels and five realms.
