"What Darwin Never Knew" - A shared NOVA video presentation

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OK - it has been a LONG LONG while since our last event. I hope to change that soon. ( anyone wanting to help coordinate events, please let me know.

First up - We've been invited to join the group "Center for Inquiry" in their showing of a great film: "What Darwin Never Knew". This is a FREE showing at the Plainview Public Library Auditorium.
Afterwards if there is interest members could go out and discuss the film over a late snack at a local diner ( or similar venue ).

While this is a free public event, and it is hosted by CFI, please do RSVP here. This is important.
Also feel free to e-mail me directly Jeff@btis.com
*** Please - do update your RSVP if you change your mind.

DETAILS ( provided by CFI )

Do you know what a genetic switch is? Celebrate Darwin Day a little late with a shared viewing of a NOVA special called "What Darwin Never Knew". (The program will be slightly edited for time).

This is an excellent, fast-pasted and kind of spunky program based on the book "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom" by biologist Sean Carroll , Ph. D. Doctor Carroll is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is the Allan Wilson Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

From the Nova Site:

Program Description
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural selection. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? To what degree do different animals rely on the same genetic toolkit? And how did we evolve?

"What Darwin Never Knew" offers answers to riddles that Darwin couldn't explain. Breakthroughs in a brand-new science—nicknamed "evo devo"—are linking the enigmas of evolution to another of nature's great mysteries, the development of the embryo. NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Scientists are finally beginning to crack nature's biggest secrets at the genetic level. The results are confirming the brilliance of Darwin's insights while revealing clues to life's breathtaking diversity in ways the great naturalist could scarcely have imagined.

(https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/darwin-never-knew.html)