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WHAT:

In honor of Charles Darwin's birthday on Wednesday, Feb. 12, the New York State Museum will serve a birthday cake, decorated with a confectionary reproduction of a Darwin lithograph, and present a lecture on "Sex, Power and Resources: How the Human Evolutionary Past Haunts our Ecological Future." Dr. Bobbi Low of the University of Michigan will speak about pressures that were prevalent in our evolutionary past and explore how our responses to those pressures played out then and how they show up in modern society. The lecture is part of a month-long series of lectures on evolution, planned in honor of Darwin's birthday. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Low will sign her book, "Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior."

WHEN:

Wednesday, February 12

7 p.m. (cake will be cut and served, followed by the lecture and book signing)

WHERE:

Museum Theater

New York State Museum

Madison Avenue, Albany

WHO:

Sponsored by the New York State Museum.