NDSU’s annual Darwin Day is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 9, at the A. Glenn Hill Center. The event will feature a keynote address by biologist and author Lee Dugatkin.
Dugatkin, who is a professor and university scholar in the University of Louisville biology department, is set to present “How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog” at 4 p.m. in the room 112 of the center.
His talk will discuss a 60-year project in Siberia where researchers have been domesticating silver foxes in an effort to reconstruct the evolution of the dog in real time. Dugatkin co-wrote a book on the project with lead scientist and co-author Lyudmila Trut.
Dugatkin has written more than 150 articles on evolution and behavior, along with several popular books.
Other activities during Darwin Day include “Hall of Biodiversity” displays from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., a book signing by Dugatkin at 2:30 p.m. and celebrating Darwin’s birthday with cake at 3:30 p.m. Those events are scheduled for the A. Glenn Hill Center atrium.
Darwin Day recognizes the 1890 birth of Charles Darwin, the famed naturalist, geologist and biologist, who is most known for his theories on evolution.
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