Natural Science Chairs' Symposium on Evolution

October 13, 2008
Location: 102 Chemistry Bldg.
Categories: Special Event

"Advances in Understanding Evolution: From the Universe to Local Communities"


"The evolution of the universe: from the big bang to the formation of the Milky Way"
Edward Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~rocky/
Introduced by TBA

"The Earliest History of Life: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma"
J. William Schopf, University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/schopf/index.asp
Introduced by Dick Holland, Earth and Environmental Science

"The Origins of Genome Architecture"
Michael Lynch, Indiana University
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Lynch.html
Introduced by Paul Sniegowski, Biology

"The Evolution of Social Minds"
Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.bio.upenn.edu/faculty/cheney/
Introduced by Robert Seyfarth, Psychology

"Evolution of Darwin's Finches"
Peter R. and B. Rosemary Grant, Princeton University
http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/FACULTY/Grant_P/grantPeter.html
http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/FACULTY/Grant_R/Grant_BR.html
Introduced by David White, Psychology

"Our Constitution's Intelligent Design"
Hon. John E. Jones III, United States District Court for the Middle District of PA
http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/bios/jones.htm
Introduced by TBA