{"id":1811,"date":"2013-01-24T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2013-01-24T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:20:08","slug":"darwin-day-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Day stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t found very much about Darwin Day in Florida yet, but here is what I know about. If you have an event I missed, mention it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay United Coalition of Reason presents: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolvetampa.com\/\">Darwin&#8217;s Gift, Science brings New Hope For Humanity<br \/>\n<\/a>Saturday, February 9th 2013, at 10 AM<br \/>\nEvent cost: $15. (includes Lunch)<br \/>\nAt Clearwater Unitarian Universalist Octagon, 2470 Nursery Road, Clearwater, FL 33764<br \/>\nHear Sean Faircloth of the Dawkins Institute; Jim Strayer, noted Biologist; and Ryan Craygun Ph.D., Anthropologist &#8211; UT.<br \/>\nPhone (727) 733-7855 for tickets<br \/>\nPre-registration required. Recommended for adults; suitable for children 10 up<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/events.tboextra.com\/tampa_fl\/events\/show\/294079905-darwin-day-seminar\"><br \/>\nDarwin Day seminar<\/a> (also see <a href=\"http:\/\/ecologicalepigenetics.com\/usf-darwin-day\/\">this link<\/a>)<br \/>\nThursday, Feb 14 3:30p to 4:30p, USF Marshall Student Center Room 2100A Tampa, FL<br \/>\nAs part of USF&#8217;s annual Darwin Day celebration of Charles Darwin&#8217;s birthday, the Department of Integrative Biology and Biology Graduate Student Organization are hosting Dr. Lee Dugatkin from the University of Louisville. His talk is titled, &#8220;Darwin, genes and culture: mate choice in guppies and humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sarasota.humanists.net\/programs.html#DD2013\">Humanists of Sarasota Bay<\/a><br \/>\nFeb 16, 2013, Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Baci, 4001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL. Sign in will begin at 11:30 AM followed by a three course lunch with an entre of your choice. The cost per person for the entire event will be $21.25 which includes meal, tax and gratuity. We will be accepting payment at the door with reservations. Seating is open.<br \/>\nThis year we will be welcoming John Stinespring, Ph.D, Associate Professor Emeritus, who will speak to us on the topic of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Socio-Political Implications of Recent Human Evolution.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nReservations are necessary so please contact Sandie Zellick (sandie34293@comcast.net ) or Judy Helgager (JLHelgager@comcast.net) to reserve. At that time you will be asked to submit your lunch choice\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6vegetarian, chicken or fish (flounder).<br \/>\nThe deadline for submitting reservations is Feb. 12, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t found very much about Darwin Day in Florida yet, but here is what I know about. If you have an event I missed, mention it in the comments. Tampa Bay United Coalition of Reason presents: Darwin&#8217;s Gift, Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-td","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2264,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2264","url_meta":{"origin":1811,"position":0},"title":"Darwin Day events 2015","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are three Darwin Day events coming up in the next few weeks: 1. Humanists of Sarasota Bay will host a Darwin Day event: Nancy Howell, professor emerita of sociology at the University of Toronto, will be speaking on \"Human Evolution: A Kalahari Perspective\" at 11:30 a.m. on February 7,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2264#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=900","url_meta":{"origin":1811,"position":1},"title":"Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"-- The Miami Herald says happy birthday to Charles Darwin: Biologists know that Darwin is still relevant. His theories regarding natural selection have been proved right in experiments and by scientists all over the world. 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A full event list can be found on the bottom of our home page. >> South Florida Community College will be hosting a Darwin Day Event on Thursday,February\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=882#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1162,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1162","url_meta":{"origin":1811,"position":4},"title":"Darwin Day, Florida","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are three Darwin Day events I know of here in Florida. 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