The Division of Biological Sciences in partnership with the Helen Edison Lecture Series presents as part of UC San Diego's yearlong celebration of the Darwin/Lincoln Bicentennial:

Michael Shermer

Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine

speaking on

"Why Darwin Matters"

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
7:00 PM
UCSD Price Center Ballroom
free and open to the public . no tickets or reservations required

Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, the executive director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech.  His published works includes, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time; How We Believe, the Search for God in an Age of Science; The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule; Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design; and The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.

Shermer received his BA degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University, his MA in Experimental Psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the History of Science from Claremont Graduate University.

Dr. Shermer helped found Race Across America, the nonstop 3,000 mile transcontinental bicycle race, in which he has competed 5 times.