Disagreements Among Friends: How T. H. Morgan and E. B. Wilson’s Agreeing to Disagree Helped Establish Genetics and the Modern Synthesis

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Place: Carpenter Library 21, Bryn Mawr College

Information: Bryn Mawr Special Collections Department, 610-526-6576 or SpecColl@brynmawr.edu

Scott Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College, author of "Ecological Developmental Biology" and many articles in both developmental biology and in the history and philosophy of biology. He has recently received a National Science Foundation grant to explore how the turtle forms its shell. His lecture will focus on Edmund B. Wilson and Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first and second professors of biology at Bryn Mawr College, both of whom played prominent roles in the international debates over evolution during the first half of the 20th century.

The lecture will be followed by a reception for the opening of the exhibition "Darwin's Ancestors: Tracing the Origins of the 'Origin of Species."