Darwin, ha ha

Darwin, ha ha By Graeme Stemp-Morlock "Charlie's Angels": students pose with a Darwin figure. Courtesy of Colin Purrington The evolution of every living organism on the planet—with all its social, religious, and scientific ramifications—might not seem like a laughing matter. But to many scientists, it is. One scientist who has given evolution something to sing about is Richard Milner. The author of "Darwin's Universe: Evolution

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By Graeme Stemp-Morlock

The evolution of every living organism on the planet—with all its social, religious, and scientific ramifications—might not seem like a laughing matter. But to many scientists, it is.

One scientist who has given evolution something to sing about is Richard Milner. The author of "Darwin's Universe: Evolution A to Z" and former editor of Natural History magazine at the American Museum of Natural History is also the creator of the one-man opera "Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert."

Over the past decade, Milner has sung about Darwin's discoveries, the Scopes Monkey trial, and even Stephen Jay Gould to audiences around the world. With the onset of the Year of Darwin (marked by his 200th birthday last February and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species in November), Milner is busier than ever with bookings in New York City, London, Boston, Chicago, and Washington.

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