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Social reactions to Origin
Dr Barry Butcher, Deakin University
Charles Darwin series, 26 February 2009
Historian Barry Butcher explores the work of four Australians who contributed to the growing corpus of Darwinian science from the 1860s to the 1890s: William Edward Hearn, Robert David Fitzgerald, Walter Baldwin Spencer and Alexander Sutherland.
Charles Darwin series
- Charles Darwin symposium welcome and introductionCraddock Morton, National Museum of Australia
- A lunatic idea: British science and evolution on the eve of Darwin’s Origin of SpeciesProfessor Iain McCalman, University of Sydney
- Charles Darwin: his character and convictionsProfessor Tom Frame, Charles Sturt University and St Mark's National Theological Centre
- Darwin’s experiences in AustraliaProfessor Frank Nicholas, University of Sydney
- ‘A theory to work with’: On The Origin of Species and its contemporary receptionProfessor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
- Social reactions to OriginDr Barry Butcher, Deakin University
- Darwin and social Darwinism: the political use and abuse of natural selectionTony Barta, La Trobe University
- Human evolution: fossils surprising, fossils predictedProfessor Colin Groves, Australian National University
- Evolution and creationismProfessor Neil Ormerod, Australian Catholic University
- Evolutionary change in agriculture – the past, present and futureDr Jeremy Burdon, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Charles Darwin symposium closing addressRobyn Williams, ABC Radio National
- Darwin exhibition openingDr Barry Jones
