Date

February 9, 2016

Time

7:00 pm

Location

ROM

Speaker: Dan Riskin, evolutionary biologist, author, and co-host of Discovery’s Daily Planet

Hosts: UofT EEB / ROM

Abstract: Every once in a while, scientific knowledge

surges forward, thanks to a brilliant individual like Galileo,

Newton, or Darwin. Dan Riskin, explores what sets these

thinkers apart from their peers, and asks: In a modern world of

specialists, can one person ever have such a wide ranging impact

again?

Tickets: $18 members and students, $20 public; includes wine / reception after talk

February 9th at 7pm (doors open at 6:30), at the ROM

Contact: Dave Ireland davei@rom.on.ca