Wow! We have just recovered from hosting last night’s fantastic talk from Keith Skene.

Around 150 of you attended the talk as Keith Spoke about his radical and challenging book that turns current thinking about evolution on its head.

Keith, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Dundee, presents a completely new approach to our understanding of how and why life evolved in the way that it did.

Whilst Darwinism was based on biology, the theory presented in this book is built on a much more fundamental basis, physics. He argues that since physics is the foundation for understanding everything else, then surely we should base our theory of evolution on it, rather than on the shadows of chemistry and biology.

Armed with this new approach, Keith applies it to understand how we should face the serious challenges facing our planet at present.

Keith’s book ‘Shadows on the Cave Wall: A New Theory of Evolution’ is available to buy here.

This event was part of the very successful first year of Dundee Science Festival in 2009.

Getting the right molecules (usually pharmaceuticals) to the right place, and at the right time is the critical problem in drug delivery.

There are many challenging barriers to be overcome along the route to the target, which is usually a diseased or dysfunctional tissue. However, taking a uniquely physics-driven approach offers many benefits, and has certainly facilitated massive leaps of progress in this last decade. Dr Paul Campbell will outline how an appreciation of even high school Physics can form the platform for a raft of exciting new experiments that could revolutionise drug and gene therapies – aspects of which are being developed right now at the University of Dundee.

Come along to Borders (upstairs in the Starbucks area) to hear about sexy biophysics. The talk starts at 7pm, so don’t forget to arrive early to get yourself teas and coffees.

FREE entry. Everyone welcome.