Charles Darwin Bicentennial Week at BYU

Today I attended an interesting lecture on Charles Darwin as part of BYU's Charles Darwin Bicentennial Week. Here is my account of what happened in pictures and video. The lecture was held in the Maeser Building on the BYU campus. Thursday is Darwin's 200th birthday and birthday cake will be served following another campus lecture. This year is also the 150th anniversary of the publication of On The Origin of Species.

Here is the lecturer, Daniel Fairbanks, near the begining of his talk. At the end of this clip is a portrait of Karl G. Maeser.



Professor Fairbanks worked on the sculpture throught the entire lecture.
Darwin didn't have a beard when On The Origin of Species was published.
Fairbanks says he has only sculpted a bust of Darwin 4 or 5 times in his life. He referenced no photos or paintings of Darwin when creating the bust. Pretty amazing.