Explore the Natural World
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A Commitment to Sustainability

The California Academy of Sciences’ mission to explore, explain and protect the natural world compels the Academy to engage in scientific research relevant to sustainability, to raise public awareness about these urgent problems, and to minimize its own environmental impact.

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Support for Evolution

Last year, the Academy's Science Council reaffirmed the importance of evolution as the critical organizing principle in modern science. The council further wrote, "evolution belongs in school curricula and textbooks."

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