Celebrating Evolution with Dr. Julie Wade

This Sunday, February 12, we begin our annual celebration of Evolution with a multi-session discussion led by our own Dr. Julie Wade. Julie is a retired professor of biology at Milligan College. She earned her master's degree at Cornell University and her doctorate at the University of Tennessee in mammalian biology.
Please join us for a fascinating look into the workings of evolution, and what evolution means to us in our lives.

from the FPCe newsletter:

Evolution Sunday  

 

Celebrations for Darwin Day begin in Adult Forum on 

Feb. 12 at 9:45 am. For the 13th year, Julie Wade will present a series of talks on evolution designed to enlighten folks who do not understand what an amazing process evolution is and how it is still occurring.  This year we shall be looking at how evolution is impacting our daily lives and changing us in ways Darwin could not have imagined.  We shall look at our genome, our epigenome, our microbiome, and our virome, all of which as they work together have changed the speed at which evolution is occurring. 

In today's world we have gone from natural selection to unnatural selection by modifying our internal and external environments.  We shall also look at CRISPR used in bioengineering which is allowing us to change our genomes in ways that may be wondrous but that may also be frightening.  Come and join us.