(From NCSE’s Evolution Education Update, 11/11/11)
Two recent webcast symposia on human evolution are now available on-line.
First, Bones, Stones, and Genes: The Origin of Modern Humans—the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Holiday Lectures on Science for 2011 — is now available for on-demand viewing (and on DVD as well). The lectures address such questions as: Where and when did humans arise? What distinguishes us from other species? Did our distant ancestors look and behave like us? Featured are NCSE Supporter Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, speaking on “Human evolution and the nature of science”; Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania speaking on “Genetics of human origins and adaptation”;
John Shea of Stony Brook University speaking on “Stone tools and the evolution of human behavior”; and White again on “Hominid paleobiology.”
Second, Changing Humans in a Changing Environment—a symposium on evolution held at the 2011 meeting of the NABT and sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center—is also now available for on-demand viewing, along with a suite of educational resources. Featured are Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution speaking on “Evolution in an era of dramatic climate change”; Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University speaking on “What can chimpanzees tell us about human evolution?”;
Susan Antón of New York University speaking on “Becoming human in a changing world: the early evolution of Homo”; and John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaking on “New discoveries from ancient genomes.”
For Bones, Stones, and Genes, visit:
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/lectures/index.html
For information about ordering Bones, Stones, and Genes on DVD, visit:
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/ordermaterials.html
For Changing Humans in a Changing Environment, visit:
http://nescent.org/media/NABTSymposium2011.php
For the educational resources for Changing humans, visit:
http://www.nescent.org/media/NABT2011/index.html
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