Science Speakeasy – Evolution and Gender Revolution
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis Science Speakeasy celebrates gender diversity. Explore the evolutionary origins of gender with evolutionary anthropologist Stephanie Meredith, whose fieldwork with primates has taken her to Madagascar and Ethiopia. Then learn about Bay Area LBGT History with historian and award-winning writer and filmmaker, Susan Stryker.
$10Science Speakeasy – Evolution and Gender Revolution
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis Science Speakeasy celebrates gender diversity. Explore the evolutionary origins of gender with evolutionary anthropologist Stephanie Meredith, whose fieldwork with primates has taken her to Madagascar and Ethiopia. Then learn about Bay Area LBGT History with historian and award-winning writer and filmmaker, Susan Stryker.
$10Science Speakeasy – A Giant Advantage: Baseball in Our Bones
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this Science Speakeasy we’re stepping up to the pitcher’s mound! Explore the connection between precision throwing and our evolutionary split from other primates with evolutionary biologist Nathan Young. Then, San Francisco Giants’ official orthopedic surgeon Ken Akizuki will share how he keeps our Giants’ pitchers in optimum condition to win.
$10
Science Speakeasy – A Giant Advantage: Baseball in Our Bones
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this Science Speakeasy we’re stepping up to the pitcher’s mound! Explore the connection between precision throwing and our evolutionary split from other primates with evolutionary biologist Nathan Young. Then, San Francisco Giants’ official orthopedic surgeon Ken Akizuki will share how he keeps our Giants’ pitchers in optimum condition to win.
$10
Alesi: The Life, Death, and Discovery of an Ancestor
Walter Payton College Prep High School 1034 N. Wells St., Chicago, IL, United StatesThe recent discovery of a 13 million-year-old fossil infant ape skull has offered a rare glimpse of what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The fossil, nicknamed “Alesi,” was discovered by a member of Dr. Isaiah Nengo’s research team. In this talk, Dr. Nengo will share the story of finding this rare fossil and discuss what cutting-edge technology has uncovered about the life of this ancient infant.
FreeAlesi: The Life, Death, and Discovery of an Ancestor
Walter Payton College Prep High School 1034 N. Wells St., Chicago, IL, United StatesThe recent discovery of a 13 million-year-old fossil infant ape skull has offered a rare glimpse of what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The fossil, nicknamed “Alesi,” was discovered by a member of Dr. Isaiah Nengo’s research team. In this talk, Dr. Nengo will share the story of finding this rare fossil and discuss what cutting-edge technology has uncovered about the life of this ancient infant.
Free
The Origins of the Genus Homo
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this talk, paleoanthropologist Dr. Bernard Wood will survey the history of attempts to find fossils of the earliest members of the genus Homo, including very recent and controversial additions. He will review the complications that arise from defining the genus and discuss how half-a-century of paleontological research has taught him what to look for within the hominin fossil record when searching for the origins of our genus Homo.
$15The Origins of the Genus Homo
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this talk, paleoanthropologist Dr. Bernard Wood will survey the history of attempts to find fossils of the earliest members of the genus Homo, including very recent and controversial additions. He will review the complications that arise from defining the genus and discuss how half-a-century of paleontological research has taught him what to look for within the hominin fossil record when searching for the origins of our genus Homo.
$15
Science Speakeasy: Fake or Fact?
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesHow can you tell what’s fake and what’s fact when it comes to science? Join New York University biological anthropologist Dr. Todd Disotell and Science Friday’s Undiscovered podcast co-host and producer Elah Feder for an evening separating the fantastical from the factual.
$10Science Speakeasy: Fake or Fact?
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesHow can you tell what’s fake and what’s fact when it comes to science? Join New York University biological anthropologist Dr. Todd Disotell and Science Friday’s Undiscovered podcast co-host and producer Elah Feder for an evening separating the fantastical from the factual.
$10
Rewriting Modern Human Origins: Insights from New Discovery in Morocco
The Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this talk Dr. Shara Bailey will discuss her work on the newly discovered 300,000 year old Homo sapiens fossils in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The fossils show that by about 300,000 years ago, important changes in our biology and behavior and are reshaping our understanding of how we evolved.
$18Rewriting Modern Human Origins: Insights from New Discovery in Morocco
The Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this talk Dr. Shara Bailey will discuss her work on the newly discovered 300,000 year old Homo sapiens fossils in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The fossils show that by about 300,000 years ago, important changes in our biology and behavior and are reshaping our understanding of how we evolved.
$18
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