Events: detail
Limbs from Fins: The Emergence of Vertebrates onto Land
- Hosted by:
- Harvard University, Center for the Environment
- Speaker:
-
Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., Harvard Zoology and Vertebrate Paleontology
- Starts:
- May 25, 2006 at 06:00 pm
- Ends:
- May 25, 2006 at 08:00 pm
- Location:
- Harvard University, Center for the Environment, Building Name, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA. 02138
- Maps:
Description
Jenkins, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Harvard, will recount the pathways of exploration in the Canadian Arctic archipelago that led to the new discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, an extinct fish that represents the initiation of the transition to land-based vertebrates. The unusual features of this 375 million year old animal reveal the early evolutionary development of limbs from fins, and other transformations that persist with us even today.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Contact person:
- Jenny MacGregor
- Email:
- jmacgreg [ at ] fas.harvard.edu
- Website:
- Limbs from Fins: The Emergence of Vertebrates onto Land
