University of Chicago professor and outspoken defender of evolution Jerry A. Coyne will discuss his book, Why Evolution is True, a passionate defense of natural selection as theory and fact.  In his book, Coyne presents, as Publishers’ Weekly states, a case that “evolutionary theory makes predictions that are consistently borne out by the data—basic requirements for a scientific theory to be valid.” Join us for a lively discussion of science and culture.

Monday, February 8, 2010        6:30pm
Columbia College of Chicago, Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S. Michigan Av., Rm 101

For more information about Columbia College Chicago’s Critical Encounters initiative, visit here.

Jerry A. Coyne, PhD 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 BS in Biology from the College of William and Mary.  He then earned a PhD 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.

Tags: Columbia College, Darwin, Evolution

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