OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
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The film features Professor Lynn Margulis who was Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford in 2009. Lynn was a pioneer of symbiogenesis, including the bacterial origin of internal cell organelles like mitochondria and plastids. We can’t understand some of the major transitions in evolution without Margulis’s discoveries. The implications for the medical sciences in general are profound. Many world-leading scientists and others are interviewed in the film, including Oxford scientists.
The screening will be followed by a discussion led by filmmaker John Feldman and Denis Noble, author of The Music of Life. Their discussion will focus on the “third way” of evolution which offers pioneering scientific alternatives to Neo-Darwinism and Creationism. In 2009 while Margulis was a visiting professor at Oxford, she engaged in a now famous debate with Richard Dawkins recorded by Voices from Oxford, and which is chronicled in the film.
