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Darwin Exhibit Makes N.Y. Opening [42min]

This week, a major exhibition on the life and work of Charles Darwin opens at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The curator of the exhibition talks about the scientist's work.Guests: Niles Eldredge, author, Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life, curator, Division of Paleontology, curator, Darwin Exhibition, American Museum of Natural History in New York, New York; and Edward J. Larson, author, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion and Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for history, and Herman E. Talmadge chair of law and Richard B. Russell professor of American History at the University of Georgia.
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