Breaking boundaries - University of Cambridge

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Welcome The Science Festival starts
Have you got what it takes to be an
Olympian?
Test your sporting abilities in a range of
Olympic events. Have a go and compare your
scores to athletes competing in the Olympic
and Paralympic Games.
Ages 10+
Animal and human locomotion:
measuring stride length and range
of motion
Measure your walk stride length or elbow joint
range of motion by using a video camera and
computer software.
Ages 14+
What’s on in the city
St John’s College
Map: 42, Pre book tel: 01223 339362 or email:
rew35@cam.ac.uk (unless otherwise stated)
11am – 5pm
Evolution: the race to
understanding
Old Library
This new exhibition charts the development of
evolutionary thought through the 19th century.
Discover the origins of Darwin’s big idea in
earlier works, and explore the alternative
theories that led to some of science’s most
impassioned debates.
Exhibition, Drop in, All ages
Anglia Ruskin
University
Cambridge & Chelmsford
12noon – 1pm
Evolution, philosophy and wellbeing:
a beginners’ guide
Fisher Building
Join philosopher, author, publisher and
campaigner Dr Ben Irvine for a whistle-stop
tour of some of the major objections to, and
misreadings of, the theory of natural selection –
and discover how understanding Darwinism
better can help us all to achieve well-being.
Talk, Ages 12+
2pm – 3pm
Butler among the machines:
evolutionary literature and science
in Europe, 1859–1902
Fisher Building
Dr Elinor Shaffer, co-editor of the third of the
three-volume The Reception of Charles Darwin in
Europe, discusses how European responses to
Darwin have shed new light on the works of
Samuel Butler who wrote an appreciative early
review of Darwin’s Origin of Species entitled
Darwin Among the Machines.
Talk, Ages 15+
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Falling foul of natural selection:
Samuel Butler and the Darwins
Fisher Building
Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin
Correspondence Project, looks at the letters
exchanged by Charles Darwin and Samuel
Butler, and charts the disintegration of their
relationship from a shared spirit of intellectual
enquiry to a state of conflict.
Talk, Ages 15+
*Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 19