Darwin150 Facebook group update:
As we approach the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" on November 24, we'll start updating the status of the group.
Our goal is 1 million by November 24.
Here are the stats:
- Members: 257,285 (as of 6:24pmET, Sun 11/1)
Help us reach the goal - ask people to join and invite everyone they know. And remember that for the Darwin birthday campaign we got to 200,000 folks in 12 days - with a rapidly accelerating rate as we got very close to the birthday (i.e. in the remaining few days).
- Discussion topics:
- 139 topics
- many thousands of posts
- Database of articles
552 links to articles about Darwin, evolutionary biology and related topics.
- Videos
- 15 videos uploaded (not including many links to videos in the links database)
- Links now to videos from the Darwin150 lecture series
- Wall posts
There are something like 10,000+ wall posts but Facebook does not give a way to count the number of wall posts in a group (or we haven't found one).
Thanks for all your support. Let's keep up the effort to reach the goal and make a large cultural statement about the breadth and depth of support for the importance of evolutionary biology.
- Phil Terry