Organisations and people all over the world are celebrating Darwin.  Darwin Now is our contribution to the global celebration and will explore the impact and legacy of Charles Darwin’s work in the 21st century.  Darwin Now will include a touring exhibition and programme of vibrant activities, as well as an international student summit.

Darwin's pioneering work showed extensive evidence of evolution in many different types of plants and animals.  Today scientists continue to find important new evidence of evolution and advances in technology, which weren’t available to Darwin, are often crucial in helping scientists with their work. For example discoveries in gorilla communication has given us insight into how human language evolved over time.  Also Dr Butler’s discovery of fang-like teeth on the skull of a Heterodontosaurus have revealed a clue to dinosaur evolution.