Its been 150 years - November 24th 1859 - that Darwin's book On
the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life was
published. The British Library on Fergusson College Road, Pune,
has a poster exhibit on the theory of evolution. There are 14
poster boards encompassing the gamut of thinking on evolution
beginning with Charles Darwin's voyage to the Galapagos to his
subsequent theories of common descent and natural selection to
current understanding on topics like speciation, group
selection, the evolution of attributes like musical ability -
which provides food for thought on whether every feature can be
explained as an adaptation or whether some traits originate as
spandrels or byproducts of the evolution of some other general
feature - to recent thinking on the genome and the importance of
mechanisms like epigenetics and gene regulation. Source: British
Council Earlier on November 12th, biologist Madhav Gadgil gave
quite a good talk on the r