Science Weekly: Happy birthday Darwin!

It's 200 years since his birth, and 150 years since On the Origin of Species was published. Yes, you guessed it, it's a show all about Charles Darwin.Adam Rutherford of Nature magazine tells us about a debate to mark the big day in Oxford last week where Bishop Richard Harries and biologist Richard Dawkins locked horns over evolution.We also have the highlights of the debates held here at Guardian HQ – this time Susan Blackmore and Nature's Henry Gee (among others) discussed if humans are still evolving.And we talk to Sir David King – former chief scientific adviser to the government – who gave this year's Darwin Day lecture. But he's not talking about Darwin.In the newsjam, we look at the controversy over the classification of dance drug ecstasy; one of the largest penguin colonies in the world is under threat; and scientists have unravelled the genetic make-up of the...

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