The biblical quote “for dust you are and to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19) suggests a life cycle whereby living creatures are digested completely after there unfortunate death. “For dust we are” is scientifically correct, but we don’t always return to that dusty state. Fossils are the ‘living’ proof of that.

Professor Jan de Leeuw tells us in this year’s Darwin Christmas Lecture about organic waste, the source of the organic geochemistry. Want to join? There are a few tickets left.

Date: 21 December 2014
Time: 13.15 – 16.00
Location: Naturalis Museum in Leiden

The lecture is free, and by showing your ticket you can visit the Naturalis Museum for free as well on 21 December.

More information on the website of the Darwin Center.