#  Wonderful Cambrian Beasts 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 14, 2020** 

 06:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

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 **Online**  



 

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 **Free Virtual Lecture**

 **Javier Ortega-Hernández**, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

 Earth is home to a vast diversity of organisms that collectively define the modern biosphere. How did this diversity come to be? Javier Ortega-Hernández will discuss his approach to answering this question by studying organisms that lived more than half a billion years ago in the Cambrian Period (541–485 million years ago). By focusing on the earliest-known animals—some of the most versatile to ever exist—Ortega-Hernández aims to reconstruct the early evolutionary history of major animal groups and contribute to our understanding of Earth’s biodiversity.

 *Evolution Matters Lecture Series*

 *Series supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit*

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