'Unnatural Selection: Evolution at the hand of man'
Katrina van Grouw
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £120, plus 35p/m travel expenses from HP19.
- Category:
- Nature
- Updated:
- 14th May 2023
- Tagged:
- Evolution | Animals | Darwin | Books Writing And Illustrating
When Charles Darwin contemplated how best to introduce his controversial new theory of evolution to the general public, he chose to compare it with the selective breeding of domesticated animals. In her new book, Unnatural Selection, marking the 150th anniversary year of Darwin’s great work on domesticated animals Variation under Domestication, author and illustrator Katrina van Grouw explains why this analogy was more appropriate than even Darwin had realised. Artificial selection is, in fact, more than just an analogy for natural selection – it’s the perfect example of evolution in action.
This is a lavishly illustrated Powerpoint presentation with time for questions and book signing after the talk.
Views: 1486 | Enquiries: 6About Katrina van Grouw
Katrina van Grouw, author and illustrator of the top-selling books The Unfeathered Bird and Unnatural Selection, has had a colourful career navigating that no-man’s land between art and science. She holds degrees in fine art and natural history illustration, is a former curator of birds at the Natural History Museum, and a current PhD student in palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge.
Katrina has presented talks at a variety of venues across Europe and America including the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Linnaean Society of London; American Museum of Natural History, the British Birdwatching Fair, the Natural History Museum, and the Smithsonian.
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