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Unnatural Selection

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Katrina van Grouw, author of The Unfeathered Bird When Charles Darwin considered how best to introduce his controversial new theory of evolution to the general public, he chose to liken it to the selective breeding of domesticated animals, changed by the...

Understanding Human Variation: Then and Now

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Maryellen Ruvolo, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology; Affiliate Member of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Associate Member of the Broad Institute of the...

Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability

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Hybrid Book Presentation Speaker: Saleem H. Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware and a senior fellow at the Columbia University Center on Sustainable Investment. He is a member of the...

Your Inner Fish Revisited: New Insights into Our Fishy Past

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Free In-Person Lecture 2026 John M. Prather Lecture Series Speaker: Neil Shubin, Robert. R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago; President-Elect, National Academy of Sciences Every organ...

Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

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Free Hybrid Book Presentation Speaker: Manvir Singh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis What is shamanism and why has it endured across cultures and centuries? In this talk, anthropologist Manvir Singh will explore the...

Chasing Ants (And Their Microbes) in the Rainforest

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Free Public Lecture Corrie Moreau, Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Cornell University Microbes play critical roles in the biology and health of human beings, but we are not the only species that benefits from intimate...

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

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Free Virtual Lecture Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard Business School, Co-chair, Harvard University Presidential Committee on Sustainability Capitalism is the most successful economic system to have ever existed...

Did We Evolve to Exercise?

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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...

Travel through time with new natural history collections on Google Arts & Culture

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A new online experience by Google, the Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard in partnership with the Harvard Museum of Natural History and some of the most loved natural history institutions in the world, allows people to come face to face with...

MicroChefs: An Evening for Curious Adults - Sold Out

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This event is sold out. Tickets will not be available at the door. Wine, beer, sake, coffee, kombucha, yogurt, cheese, chocolate. Discover how our favorite foods are created by tiny microbial “chefs.” Indulge in the edgy intersection of microbiology and...

Conserving Harvard’s Glass Flowers

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Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Scott Fulton, Conservator Registration via Zoom is required for both onsite and online attendees In person attendance is free with regular museum admission. REGISTER How were the world-renowned Blaschka Glass Flowers made over a...

Inspired by the Harvard Museum of Natural History

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Virtual Free Panel Discussion Elizabeth Shreeve, Children’s Book Author Caroline Hu, Postdoctoral Researcher and Cartoonist Moderated by Felicia Ho, Harvard Undergraduate; President and Cofounder of Storywish Advance Registration Required. The Harvard...