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The Palouse Coalition of Reason will celebrate the life of Charles Darwin Feb. 7-10 with “Darwin on the Palouse.”

The free multi-day event will start Thursday with a lecture by Frank Brown titled, “Evolution of Africa's Omo-Turkana Basin.” This will be at 7 p.m. at the Washington State University senior ballroom.

Also on Thursday, following Brown's lecture, Valerie Tarico will discuss the evolution of gender roles and the effect of Abrahamic traditions. Her lecture will be in the same location.

Friday will feature live music and dancing for Rendezvous in the Park starting at 7 p.m. at 1912 Center, in Moscow, Idaho. Tickets are $10.

Darwin on the Palouse will conclude Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Idaho where Julia Sweeney will be introduce a film of her monologue “Letting go of God” and will do a Q and A after the showing.

Each night there will be a gathering at Wanderers' Tavern in downtown Moscow. 

For information visit the event's website.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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