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Haller Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Athena Aktipis (Director of Human & Social Evolution at the Center for Evolution & Cancer, University of California at San Francisco; Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University) will be visiting HEB to give a lecture as part of the department's fall colloquium lecture series.
The lecture is titled, "Cooperation and cheating across systems: From human sharing to multicellularity."
Abstract: Cooperation and competition are fundamental...
Biological Labs lecture hall (Room 1080), 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Tanya Smith (Associate Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University) will be lecturing on "How Teeth Shed Light On Our Evolutionary Past".
Abstract: Teeth are the most abundant elements in primate fossil assemblages, are under a strong degree of genetic control, and contain the most precise developmental records of any physiological system in the body. Tooth microstructure, a primary focus of my research, is critically important for understanding development and evolution as incremental lines permanently...
Haller Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Herman Pontzer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York) will give a lecture titled, "Brains, Babies, and Bipedalism: The Evolution of the Human Metabolic Strategy."
Abstract: Humans have the largest brains, longest day ranges, and fastest reproduction among the living hominoids. In this talk I examine new data on daily metabolic energy expenditure from a broad range of human populations and from zoo and sanctuary populations of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, to test the hypothesis that humans’...