There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

Presently, I’m collaborating with two very talented writers in creating the theatrical versions of Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood for a production at UCSD called Sexual Selection: Darwin and Shakespeare Ponder Love. The scenes with CD and EW are smooshed in between scenes of Love’s Labour’s Lost, with the science of evolution, natural and sexual selection serving as analyses of the lovers in the Shakespeare play. It is day to day the best time I’ve had in the theatre.