Join Professor Jim Al-Khalili in London for the Darwin Day Lecture 2025 on 7 February. Early bird tickets are on sale now!https://humanists.uk/events/darwinday2025
The most remarkable and mysterious object in the cosmos sits inside our heads. Our brains, the centres of consciousness, logic, and creativity, have nearly 100 billion neurons forming some 100 trillion connections, a complexity found nowhere else in the universe.
So how did the conditions on planet earth drive its evolutionary marvel through planetary catastrophes and epic conflicts, through death, sex, and love. Based on his forthcoming two-part Horizon special on the BBC, Jim will share what he has learned from geologists, palaeontologists, neuroscientists, behavioural psychologists – and from having had his own brain scanned, imaged, and 3D-printed.
https://humanists.uk/events/darwinday2025
In this Darwin Day Lecture, Jim Al-Khalili will take us through the brain's 700 million-year evolutionary history: how it developed from simple nerve cells to control movement and detect light in early organisms into the remarkable system that defines what it means to be human.
Jim is a past president of the British Science Association, Vice President of Humanists UK, and is a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal and the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal, the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal, and the Stephen Hawking medal.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Physics, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
He received an OBE from the Queen in 2007 and later a CBE in 2021, both for 'services to science and public engagement in STEM'. He is a trustee and commissioner on the board of the 1851 Royal Commission, and a Fellow of the Science Museums Group.
We're delighted that Jim Al-Khalili will deliver the 2025 Darwin Day Lecture – and we hope you will join us there!
Event Venue
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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