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Evolution Matters: David Quammen and Carl Zimmer

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Free Special Event and Book Signing David Quammen, Author and Journalist Carl Zimmer, Author and New York Times Columnist Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Evolution Matters Lecture Series, two of the world’s best-known science writers will engage...

Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Evolution in a Vortex – Fish Diversity in the Lower Congo River (2015)

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Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator of Fishes, American Museum of Natural History Some of the most spectacular cataracts, falls, and gorges on Earth are found in the lower Congo River, in the heart of central Africa, near the twin Congolese...

Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Written in Stone – Reading Earth's Library of Planetary History (2015)

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Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History, Departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University We live on a mature planet shaped by four billion years of evolution and environmental change...

Evolution Matters Lecture Series: The Revolution in Plant Evolution (2015)

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Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Natural History Collections and Evolution (2015)

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The Evolution of Darwin’s Finches on the Galápagos Islands

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B. Rosemary Grant and Peter R. Grant, Emeritus Professors, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Charles Darwin laid the foundations of our current understanding of evolution in On the Origin of Species. In it, he suggested...

Symbiosis and the Evolution of Life in the Ocean

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Peter R. Girguis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University The discovery of microscopic life forms in the seventeenth century led to humankind’s understanding of microbes as...

Looking for Signs of Evolution: Bees, Butterflies, and Bacteria (2013)

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Lecture by Naomi Pierce, Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard Naomi Pierce examined the behavioral ecology of species interactions, such as insect/host plant associations, and the life...

Evolution and Conservation of Island Birds - Lessons from Genomics

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Scott V. Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Many birds that...

Ocean Evolution Today: The Impact of Human Activities on the Ecology and Evolution of Marine Organisms

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Panel Discussion Samantha B. Joye, Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia Bruce H. Robison, Senior Scientist and Midwater Ecologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Randi Dawn...

Ecology, Evolution, and Species Diversification in Hawaiian Islands

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Rosemary Gillespie, Professor and Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology, University of California, Berkeley Oceanic "hotspot" archipelagoes—such as Hawaii —in which volcanoes have been formed sequentially over extended periods of time, allow us to...

From Supercontinents to Islands - Evolution in Motion

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Gonzalo Giribet, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University The...