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SUMMARY:2015 Trip to South Africa
DESCRIPTION:Leakey Foundation Fellows traveled from from Cape Town to Johannesburg to see extraordinary rock art\, archaeological\, and paleoanthropological sites. \nhttps://youtu.be/O8gtbGpKYKYVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Leakey Foundation Tour of South Africa 2015 (https://youtu.be/O8gtbGpKYKY)\n 
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/2015-trip-to-south-africa/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:2015 Trip to South Africa
DESCRIPTION:Leakey Foundation Fellows traveled from from Cape Town to Johannesburg to see extraordinary rock art\, archaeological\, and paleoanthropological sites. \nhttps://youtu.be/O8gtbGpKYKYVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Leakey Foundation Tour of South Africa 2015 (https://youtu.be/O8gtbGpKYKY)\n 
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Olduvai Gorge and the Origins of Human Ecological Dominance
DESCRIPTION:Intelligence and technology have made humans one of the most adaptable species\, and also the most ecologically dominant. With this dominance we have surpassed levels of planetary sustainability and are causing a modern mass extinction. \nIn this lecture\, Rob Blumenschine describes nearly 30 years of research at Olduvai Gorge that sheds light on the origin of these capabilities in the earliest stone-tool maker\, Homo habilis. In habilis we see the emergence of brain sizes larger than those of apes and the distinctly un-primate-like behaviour of competing with large carnivores for food. New methods for understanding this novel adaptation suggest that our ecological dominance had its beginnings in a tool and food procurement strategy that placed our ancestors at the base of the carnivore hierarchy and exposed them to great predation risk.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/olduvai-gorge-and-the-origins-of-human-ecological-dominance/
LOCATION:California Academy of Sciences\, 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
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SUMMARY:Olduvai Gorge and the Origins of Human Ecological Dominance
DESCRIPTION:Intelligence and technology have made humans one of the most adaptable species\, and also the most ecologically dominant. With this dominance we have surpassed levels of planetary sustainability and are causing a modern mass extinction. \nIn this lecture\, Rob Blumenschine describes nearly 30 years of research at Olduvai Gorge that sheds light on the origin of these capabilities in the earliest stone-tool maker\, Homo habilis. In habilis we see the emergence of brain sizes larger than those of apes and the distinctly un-primate-like behaviour of competing with large carnivores for food. New methods for understanding this novel adaptation suggest that our ecological dominance had its beginnings in a tool and food procurement strategy that placed our ancestors at the base of the carnivore hierarchy and exposed them to great predation risk.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/olduvai-gorge-and-the-origins-of-human-ecological-dominance-2/
LOCATION:California Academy of Sciences\, 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150401T190000
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SUMMARY:Why Walk on Two Legs? The Pros and Cons of Bipedalism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of science\, cocktails and conversation at SciCafe at the American Museum of Natural History. Wednesday\, April 1 at 7:00. Admission is free and registration is recommended. \nWalking on two legs\, or ‘bipedalism’\, is one of the key characteristics defining humans and our early ancestors. But what an odd way to walk and run. In this SciCafe\, join Museum Curator Brian Richmond and Jeremy DeSilva from Boston University in exploring the great advantages of walking on two legs that allow us to be human\, as well as the unfortunate consequences of evolving bipedalism from a body plan designed to walk on four\, not two\, legs.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/why-walk-on-two-legs-the-pros-and-cons-of-bipedalism/
LOCATION:American Museum of Natural History\, 56 West 81st St.\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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SUMMARY:Why Walk on Two Legs? The Pros and Cons of Bipedalism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of science\, cocktails and conversation at SciCafe at the American Museum of Natural History. Wednesday\, April 1 at 7:00. Admission is free and registration is recommended. \nWalking on two legs\, or ‘bipedalism’\, is one of the key characteristics defining humans and our early ancestors. But what an odd way to walk and run. In this SciCafe\, join Museum Curator Brian Richmond and Jeremy DeSilva from Boston University in exploring the great advantages of walking on two legs that allow us to be human\, as well as the unfortunate consequences of evolving bipedalism from a body plan designed to walk on four\, not two\, legs.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/why-walk-on-two-legs-the-pros-and-cons-of-bipedalism-2/
LOCATION:American Museum of Natural History\, 56 West 81st St.\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medicine Without Evolution is like Engineering Without Physics
DESCRIPTION:Evolutionary medicine uses the basic science of evolutionary biology to improve the understanding\, prevention and treatment of disease. Instead of just asking how the body works and why it goes awry\, it also asks why natural selection left us with so many traits like wisdom teeth and the narrow birth canal that leave us vulnerable to disease. The old answer–the limits of natural selection–is important\, but there are five other important explanations for vulnerability. \nRandolph Nesse\, a founder of the field\, will give examples to illustrate all six reasons\, with a focus on cancer\, infectious diseases\, and emotional disorders. He will explain why the field is growing so quickly\, its prospects for providing a deeper understanding of disease\, and how scientists and clinicians can join the effort to bring evolutionary biology to bear on the problems of medicine.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/medicine-without-evolution-is-like-engineering-without-physics/
LOCATION:The Houston Museum of Natural Science\, 5555 Hermann Park Drive\, Houston\, TX\, 77030\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medicine Without Evolution is like Engineering Without Physics
DESCRIPTION:Evolutionary medicine uses the basic science of evolutionary biology to improve the understanding\, prevention and treatment of disease. Instead of just asking how the body works and why it goes awry\, it also asks why natural selection left us with so many traits like wisdom teeth and the narrow birth canal that leave us vulnerable to disease. The old answer–the limits of natural selection–is important\, but there are five other important explanations for vulnerability. \nRandolph Nesse\, a founder of the field\, will give examples to illustrate all six reasons\, with a focus on cancer\, infectious diseases\, and emotional disorders. He will explain why the field is growing so quickly\, its prospects for providing a deeper understanding of disease\, and how scientists and clinicians can join the effort to bring evolutionary biology to bear on the problems of medicine.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/medicine-without-evolution-is-like-engineering-without-physics-2/
LOCATION:The Houston Museum of Natural Science\, 5555 Hermann Park Drive\, Houston\, TX\, 77030\, United States
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