Free Darwin Day talk - Pittsburgh Feb 25

Dear Pittsburgh-area friends of NCSE,

I thought that you might like to know that Charles E. Jones of the University of Pittsburgh will be giving a Darwin Day talk at 7:00 on February 25, at the First Unitarian Church Shadyside, 605 Morewood Avenue in Pittsburgh.

A description of Jones's talk: "He will introduce us to a variety of terrestrial vertebrates that lived and died in Pittsburgh some 75 million years before the earliest dinosaurs. Although not as famous as the dinosaurs, they deserve our love because while some are entertainingly weird, others are our direct ancestors. In addition, coming only 30 million years after the very first vertebrates to walk on land, the fossils around here preserve two key moments in our past: An evolutionary radiation out of lakes, rivers, and swamps into fully terrestrial habitats, and the evolution of the world’s first herbivores. Thus, although the animals were completely different, the region's rocks capture the beginnings of what we think of today as a fully developed terrestrial ecosystem."

Sponsored by the Center for Inquiry Pittsburgh, the event is free and open to the public; consider bringing a nonperishable item for donation to a local food bank. For further information, visit:
http://unitedcor.org/pittsburgh/calendar
>http://darwinday.org/event/pittsburgh-cfi-celebrates-darwin-month/

Sincerely,

Glenn Branch
Deputy Director
National Center for Science Education, Inc.
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