Updated at 2:53 p.m., Monday, February 19, 2007
Dawkins probes 'Strangeness of Science' in UH lecture
Advertiser Staff
Professor Richard Dawkins, who holds the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, as well a fellow post at the University of Oxford, will speak tomorrow night at University of Hawai'i at Manoa.The author of several bestsellers on evolutionary biology, science, and religion, will offer a 7 p.m. presentation titled "Queerer Than We Can Suppose?: The Strangeness of Science."
The hour-long presentation, which is part of UH-Manoa's ongoing Distinguished Lecture Series, will be held in the Campus Center ballroom. It is free and open to the public.
A UH news release noes that Dawkins' best sellers include: "The Selfish Gene" (1976; second edition, 1989), "The Extended Phenotype" (1982), "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986), "River Out of Eden" (1995), "Climbing Mount Improbable" (1996), "Unweaving the Rainbow" (1998), "A Devil's Chaplain" (2003), "The Ancestor's Tale" (2004), and "The God Delusion" (2006).
His visit to the Manoa campus is co-sponsored by the UH-Manoa College of Natural Sciences, Departments of Botany and Zoology, Lyon Arboretum, and the Center for Conservation Research and Training, the release said.
