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Charles Darwin was born two hundred years ago this month (12th Feb 1809). He is one of the most important and influential Biologists of all time. He published his most famous book ‘On the Origin of Species’ 150 years ago this year, and revolutionised scientific thinking.

The BBC are celebrating the anniversary of his birth through a series of programmes. On Sunday they showed a fantastic program presented by David Attenborough called Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life. If you missed it you can watch it on the BBC iPlayer here.

Also worth watching on the iPlayer is a programme called What Darwin Didn’t Know. It’s here, but not for much longer!

The Open University are doing lots of things also for Darwin’s Anniversary. Go to www.open2.net/darwin.

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