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Original Shorts: Survival of the Fittest

Each year, Litquake asks authors to create and share short original stories on a common theme. This year, in conjunction with the citywide Evolve 2009 celebration of the life and work of Charles Darwin, Kathryn Ma, Lori Ostlund, Cornelia Nixon, Sylvia Brownrigg, Russell Hill, and Chelsea Martin will write and read on the theme: “Survival of the Fittest.”

Evidence of Evolution

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species”, this celebration of evolutionary development combines beautiful photographs of plants and animals with text to express Darwin’s greatest discovery to a general audience in a unique and vivid manner.

Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s
birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of
Species, The Bancroft Library is mounting an exhibition of rare books,
manuscripts, images and scientific specimens drawn from the collections of
nine of UC Berkeley’s libraries and museums.

The exhibition runs August 13 to December 23, 2009. For Gallery hours visit the Libraries’ website at http://lib.berkeley.edu.

The Ancient Plant Garden

A tour through time through the evolution of plants.