TAKE a professor of microbial genomics whose two passions are Darwin and dub reggae. Allow him to meet up by chance with a Jamaican scientist working at the same university. What do you get? The formation of the Genomic Dub Collective and their first CD, The Origin of Species in Dub.
“Mek we celebrate Darwin in a Jamaican stylee!” the first track proclaims, and the album proceeds to do just that, declaiming passages of Darwin’s great book over a roots reggae beat and taking in related issues such as the premature death of Darwin’s daughter Annie, human evolution in Africa and “a Rastafarian…
