Happy Birthday Darwin
To celebrate Darwin Day, yesterday I went to the Flock of Dodos screening at the NC State Natural History Museum in Raleigh. I very much enjoyed the film, which did a fair job of addressing the intelligent design-evolution debate. As an evolutionary ecologist, I appreciated the care that the the director (a former professor of marine biology at UNH) took in presenting the entire issue and clarifying that it's not really a religious or scientific one--it's really all about communications and idea marketing. It did make me think--in this day of information and media overload, will scientists go the way of the dodo? I surely hope not. A definite two thumbs up for Dodo.
(Note: that's a brown pelican, probably P. o. carolinensis, and not a dodo. Brown pelicans were once seriously threatened, but are making a comeback. I'd rather scientists were pelicans than dodos.)
Tangled Transects
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Brown Pelican, Cape Hatteras, NC
