Evolution Matters Lecture Series

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Free Lecture Event – Online & In Person Speaker: Jonathan Losos, Director, Living Earth Collaborative; William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology...

Virtual Public Lecture Gonzalo Giribet, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Advance Registration...

Free Virtual Public Lecture Daniel Lieberman, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Advance Registration Required. Exercise is a paradox: everyone knows it is healthy, but most of...

Free Virtual Public Conversation Carole Hooven, Lecturer and Codirector of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University In conversation with: Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University...

Paul Shamble, John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow, Harvard University Consider the spider: eight legs, eight eyes, and a brain the size of a poppy seed. These are some of nature’s most amazing and charismatic creatures, and yet we know so little...

Mansi Srivastava, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Regeneration is a remarkable phenomenon in which an animal...

Ashley S. Hammond, Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School, Biological Anthropology Curator, American Museum of Natural History The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and modern humans is believed to have evolved in Africa six to eight...

Free Virtual Lecture Matthew Carrano , Curator of Dinosauria, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Fossils provide evidence of how organisms have evolved and ecosystems have changed through time—and offer clues to our present and...

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...

Free Public Lecture William Friedman , Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Charles Darwin is commonly cited as the person who “discovered” evolution. But, the historical record...