Speaker Series
The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this lecture and his new book The New Chimpanzee, Craig Stanford reviews the past two decades of chimpanzee field research. From culture to warfare, from our diet to our politics, the study of wild chimpanzees continues to change the way we understand both human nature and the apes themselves.
$15
The Raw Truth About Cooking
American Museum of Natural History 56 West 81st St., New York, NY, United StatesRachel Carmody explains how processing increases the calories we extract from food, ways this practice has given humans an evolutionary edge, and why it may present challenges for our present and future.
FreeThe Raw Truth About Cooking
American Museum of Natural History 56 West 81st St., New York, NY, United StatesRachel Carmody explains how processing increases the calories we extract from food, ways this practice has given humans an evolutionary edge, and why it may present challenges for our present and future.
Free
Mama’s Last Hug: What Animal Emotions Reveal About Humans
Marines’ Memorial Theatre 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPrimatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
$10 – $50Mama’s Last Hug: What Animal Emotions Reveal About Humans
Marines’ Memorial Theatre 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPrimatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
$10 – $50
Innovation and Environmental Disruption During the Origin of Homo sapiens
Coe Auditorium, Buffalo Bill Center of the West 720 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, WY, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Rick Potts will discuss how recent discoveries at the Kenyan site of Olorgesailie represent milestones in technological, ecological, and social evolution that coincided with the oldest ages for fossils attributed to Homo sapiens in Africa.
FreeInnovation and Environmental Disruption During the Origin of Homo sapiens
Coe Auditorium, Buffalo Bill Center of the West 720 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, WY, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Rick Potts will discuss how recent discoveries at the Kenyan site of Olorgesailie represent milestones in technological, ecological, and social evolution that coincided with the oldest ages for fossils attributed to Homo sapiens in Africa.
FreeHomo naledi and the Chamber of Secrets
The Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this lecture, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva will discuss what we know about the new early human species Homo naledi and how its discovery is not only changing science, but how we define “human.”
$10 – $18Homo naledi and the Chamber of Secrets
The Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this lecture, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva will discuss what we know about the new early human species Homo naledi and how its discovery is not only changing science, but how we define “human.”
$10 – $18
The Earliest Child: The Significance of “Selam”
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium in the Harold Washington Center of the Chicago Public Library 400 South State Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesJoin us for a talk with Professor Zeray Alemseged as he presents on how the discovery of an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile early human ancestor has helped scientists answer some of the pressing questions about human evolution.
FreeThe Earliest Child: The Significance of “Selam”
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium in the Harold Washington Center of the Chicago Public Library 400 South State Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesJoin us for a talk with Professor Zeray Alemseged as he presents on how the discovery of an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile early human ancestor has helped scientists answer some of the pressing questions about human evolution.
Free
Cleveland, Lucy, and Human Evolution
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, OH, United StatesDr. Donald Johanson, discoverer of the famous fossil hominin known as "Lucy" will share his story of the excitement and controversy of the “golden age” of paleoanthropology. He will reflect on Lucy’s role as ambassador to the past and her profound impact on the field of human origins.
$12