Session: Darwin, Geology and Evolution: Impact of Darwinian Views on Scientific Theory-Making (2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009))

Session No. 137

Monday, 19 October 2009: 1:30 PM-3:45 PM

Portland Ballrooms 251/258 (Oregon Convention Center)

T120. Darwin, Geology and Evolution: Impact of Darwinian Views on Scientific Theory-Making

GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division; GSA International Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; Paleontological Society; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; National Association of Geoscience Teachers; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division

Yildirim Dilek, Michael Roberts and Léo F. Laporte, Advocates

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1:30 PM

CHARLES DARWIN; THE MAKING OF THE NATURALIST AND GEOLOGIST IN CAMBRIDGE AND WALES

ROBERTS, Michael B., Dept of History, Lancaster University, The Vicarage, 5 Lancaster Road, Cockerham, Lancaster, LA2 0EB, United Kingdom, michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk, michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk

1:50 PM

DARWIN, GEOLOGY, AND THE GROWTH OF MACROEVOLUTIONARY THEORY

LIEBERMAN, Bruce S., Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, blieber@ku.edu, blieber@ku.edu

2:10 PM

WHAT DARWIN CHANGED FOR PALEONTOLOGISTS

PADIAN, Kevin, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, kpadian@berkeley.edu, kpadian@berkeley.edu

2:30 PM

NAVIGATING THE PARADIGM SHIFTS OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GEOLOGY: PAVING THE WAY FOR DARWIN

LOHFF, Kathleen, Severna Park, MD 21146, kathylohff@msn.com, kathylohff@msn.com

2:50 PM

DARWIN, GEOLOGY AND RELIGION; 1859, SCOPES AND THE CREATION MUSEUM. HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED – FOR THE WORSE

3:10 PM

VESTIGES OF EVOLUTION IN A PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: EVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS IN THE BOOKS OF JAMES A. GARFIELD, TWENTIETH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

HANNIBAL, Joseph T., Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, OH 44106-1767, hannibal@cmnh.org, hannibal@cmnh.org

3:30 PM

DARWIN IN GEOLOGY, CORE, AND UK STUDY ABROAD CURRICULA AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY

SOJA, Constance M., Geology, Colgate Univ, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, csoja@mail.colgate.edu, csoja@mail.colgate.edu

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