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Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest, or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 Years After Darwin
- Speaker:
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Daniel Lieberman, Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
- Starts:
- March 05, 2009 at 06:00 pm
- Ends:
- March 05, 2009 at 07:00 pm
- Location:
- Harvard Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.
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Description
One hundred and fifty years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, we can now trace several major episodes of natural selection that resulted in modern humans. But, paradoxically, humans have created a world that is leading to a kind of “dysevolution.” Harvard Professor of Biological Anthropology Daniel Lieberman explains how many of the adaptations that enabled us to succeed as active hunter-gatherers, including the ability to store fat for lean time, can now impair our well-being and may even threaten our species’ very survival. Free and open to the public in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Contact person:
- Contact Museum
- Phone:
- 617.495.3045
