Richard Milner¹s new show DARWIN’S UNIVERSE — as seen on C-SPAN2 Book TV — is now available online free! View the complete 90-minute broadcast at www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290953-1.

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DARWIN’S UNIVERSE: Evolution from A to Z

Richard Milner’s newest book, just published by University of California Press, is the evolved descendant of his Encyclopedia of Evolution: Humanity’s Search for its Origins, which has gone through two editions (1990 and 1993). The new book contains a hundred new essays, and a treasure trove of rare pictures and illustrations from the history of natural science.

In his introduction to Darwin’s Universe, Ian Tattersall, Curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History writes: “This book is crammed with the results of a lifetime of inquiry, and will become an indispensable reference for anyone interested in evolutionary thought and the changing milieus through which it has developed. But while as a result you will probably pick it up for information and insight, I guarantee you’ll read it for fun.”

Darwin’s Universe is not only about Darwin’s Life and thought (and those of his friends and fellow evolutionists) but is the story of how evolution leaped out of science to influence drama, literature, exploration, cinema, law, and popular culture.

Please visit Richard Milner’s blog as well as Darwin Live & in Concert at DarwinLive.com.

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DARWIN’S UNIVERSE: Evolution from A to Z

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	Richard Milner’s Darwin to Sail Aboard Hms Beagle! Richard Milner, the singing Darwinian scholar, has been selected to join the elite company of the extraordinary HMS Beagle Project, which has rebuilt the sailing ship that carried Charles Darwin around the world on his iconic voyage of 1831–36. This three-masted vessel will host top scholars, scientists, and historians, as well as members of the Darwin family, as it circumnavigates the globe next year, following in Darwin’s wake. Scientists on board will take new measurements in biology, geology, and oceanography to compare the climate and wildlife observations made by Darwin with conditions today. The historical re-creation is being produced by VPRO Television, the national public broadcasting service in The Netherlands. During the voyage, they will film more than thirty television episodes for worldwide broadcast as a series. Milner's acclaimed new book, Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z, has just been published by the University of California Press, and is now in bookstores all over the world as well as on Amazon.com. Michael Shermer has called it “The single best volume ever published that covers all matters Darwinian from A to ZSA magnificent product of scholarship that is also a work of art.” Richard will be on board the Beagle on the Rio de Janeiro to Montevideo leg of the voyage. He will be interviewed on camera as a Darwin historian, and will also perform several songs from his one-man musical, Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert, aboard ship. “I’m really looking forward to the experience,” he says, “and I’m so pleased that the Beagle Project will feature my Darwin songs as well as my scholarly and historical work. This is the coming together of a dream that has happily obsessed me for more than twenty-five years.”

BOOKINGS AND MEDIA — To book the Darwin Show or Lectures, contact: Jeannine Frank — Frank Entertainment & Speakers 310-476-6735 / 310-666-9066 (cell) jeannine@frankentertainment.com