Courses/Workshops
Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
CLASSROOM COURSE Exploring variation in the Botanic Garden
Tue 12 July 2022
Botanic Garden
John Stevens Henslow, the man who persuaded the University to move its Botanic Garden in 1846 to the site it now occupies, is also remembered as the man who secured for Charles Darwin his berth on the ‘Beagle’ voyage. Perhaps less well known is Henslow’s intense interest in variation and examples, almost certainly chosen by Henslow, survive today in the Garden. Three of the first five chapters in Darwin’s ‘The Origin’ are about variation and his brilliant insight showed how variation provides the raw material on which natural selection operates to drive evolution. Using the Botanic Garden’s collection and echoing Darwin’s first two chapter titles, this course will explore Variation under Domestication and Variation under Nature.
Cost: £35