World premiere for 'Darwin dub'
Two academics are paying an unusual homage to naturalist Charles Darwin's seminal study, The Origin of Species. Prof Mark Pallen and PhD student Dom White, both of Birmingham University, are performing extracts from the work in dub, a hybrid form of reggae music…
The self-styled Genomic Dub Collective came together after Prof Pallen, a bacteriologist, was inspired by a reading from Birmingham poet Benjamin Zephaniah at last year's event.
Darwin Day madness!