Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World
Randall Library, UNCW
August 22 - october 3, 2008
"Benjamin Franklin and the Development of by Dr. David Sepkoski Randall Library Coffee Shop Free and open to the public. |
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Dr. David Sepkoski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Dr. Sepkoski specializes in the history of evolutionary theory, particularly the interaction of paleontology and biology during the 20th century. His current project is a manuscript titled Re-reading the Fossil Record: The Rise of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline, which is supported by a National Science Foundation Scholars' Award. He is also co-editor (with Michael Ruse) of Paleontology at the High Table, a collection of essays by historians, philosophers, and paleontologists examining the last 40 years of paleontology, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Dr. Sepkoski also teaches courses on the history of science from Antiquity to the present; religion, race, and politics in modern science; and theology and the rise of modern science.
