The Year of Darwin

Science is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of the author's birth with a variety of news features, scientific reviews and other special content, all collected here.

On the Origin of...

• New for October: Ecological Structure
• Cooperation (September)
• Eukaryotes (August)
• The Nervous System (July)
• Sex (June)
• The Immune System (May)
• Flowering Plants (April)
• Photosynthesis (March)
• Art and Symbolism (February)
• Life on Earth (January)

A companion blog to Science's Year-of-Darwin coverage.

More Resources

• Perspectives... Reviews
• News Features and Stories
• Book Reviews
• Multimedia
• Additional Links

Perspectives, Policy Forums, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports

• A Celebration and a Challenge (Editorial)
• Darwin's Originality (Review)
• Bracing for Islamic Creationism (Policy Forum)

News Features and Stories

• Modernizing the Modern Synthesis

Book Reviews

• How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant, reviewed by Hanna Kokko
• Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism by Steve Fuller, reviewed by Michael Ruse

Multimedia

• Science Podcast interview with Carl Zimmer on his essay, "On the Origin of Life on Earth"
• Science Podcast interview with Jeffrey Bada on Stanley Miller's origin of life experiments
• Science Podcast from AAAS Annual Meeting (18 February 2008) (mp3) A feature on the public understanding of the major transformations in evolution

Additional Links

• Darwin festival (5-10 July 2009, Cambridge, UK) -- Cambridge University, where Darwin studied, hosts a weeklong festival, sponsored in part by Science
• AAAS annual meeting (12-16 February 2009, Chicago) -- "Our Planet and Its Life: Origins and Futures"