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Last evolution lecture of the year in the ALLELE series at the University of Alabama: Why are women shorter than men?

http://evolution.ua.edu/2019-20-series.html#Dunsworth

Free and open to the public, Thursday, March 5, 7:30 PM

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The next ALLELE lecture at the University of Alabama is Thursday of next week: January 23. Who isn't excited by spiders? Free and open to the public.

It can be difficult to find parking on campus, but there is a parking lot right across the street, and the ticket writers don't work that late at night.

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Next evolution lecture in Tuscaloosa.

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This Thursday evening at 7:30

The first lecture in the 2019-2020 ALLELE lecture series at the University of Alabama

This long-running series of lectures has covered a myriad of subjects that are informed by evolutionary theory, ranging from hard sciences like geology and biology, to other disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, speech, and religion.

David Sloan Wilson on completing the Darwinian revolution http://evolution.ua.edu/

 

Follow the series on twitter  @UA_ALLELE 

 

All of these lectures are free and open to the public.

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This is a link to an hour-long television show called "Speaking Evolution." The show focuses on problems and solutions with regard to teaching evolution. It features voices of many evolutionary scientists explaining in clear terms what it's all about.

https://video.aptv.org/video/speaking-evolution-fuxnro/

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Does Star Trek help explain evolution? Come find out! Mohammed Noor speaks on this subject in Tuscaloosa later this month. The lecture is free, and open to the public. ffor more information:

http://evolution.ua.edu/2018-19-series.html

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Great lecture last night by Prosanta Chakrabarty  about teaching evolution to everyone. He is a great speaker, and his PowerPoint slides were amusingly cheesy. Lots of good ways of explaining various abstruse concepts. You can find him on YouTube; he has done a bunch of TED talks.

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If you missed last night's Allele lecture on the University of Alabama campus, I pity you. Especially if you were right here in Tuscaloosa and could've gone (it was free). Dr. Katie Hinde spoke about the role of mother's milk in mammalian evolution, going back to the Triassic, before evolution of the dinosaurs. the first socialization of any mammal is between mother and infant.. Thus we are trained to interact and cooperate, which is why we have culture. we also learned about some of the many attributes of milk, who gets the most, who gets the most energy intensive, who nurses the longest and why, and so much more. The crowd was standing room only, but we could have fit you in somewhere.

There will be five more evolution lectures this academic year. All of them look like they will be as exciting as this one. Be there or… you know.

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The next evolution lecture  at the University of Alabama:

This looks like a really fascinating topic; you shouldn't miss it if you are anywhere near Tuscaloosa on October 4. As always,  the talk is free and open to the public. There is convenient parking near the lecture hall.

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Don Hoffman
“The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hides
the Truth from Our Eyes”

 University of Alabama campus

Last evolution lecture of this academic year

Free and open to the public

http://evolution.ua.edu/ 

tthis one looks fascinating!

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UA ALLELE lecture for March cancelled.

http://evolution.ua.edu/

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The University of Alabama's ALLELE series of lectures on topics related to evolution (http://evolution.ua.edu/) announces  the first lecture of the spring 2018 semester: February 8, 2018: Bernard Crespi, “Where Darwin Meets Freud:  The Evolutionary and Psychological Genetics of Human Cognitive Architecture.”​ the lecture is at 7:30 PM, in 1011 North Lawn Hall, UA campus, Tuscaloosa. The talk is free and open to the public.

the new documentary, "Speaking Evolution," with panel discussion

The ALLELE series at the University of Alabama mainly consists of scientific lectures about various topics related to evolution. The format will be a little different this coming Thursday. The new Alabama Public Television documentary, "Speaking Evolution," will be aired and followed by a panel discussion. This documentary, made by the Alabama Museum of Natural History, answers the question: why do the products of natural selection look so much like design? the program is narrated by Debbie Elliott, and features many of the world's best-known evolution experts.

The show begins at 7:30 PM, this Thursday, on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, in North Lawn Hall room 211. It is free and open to the public.

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ALLELE lecture series

The University of Alabama hosts a series of lectures on the subject of evolution every year. These cover current research in such fields as biology, chemistry, and geology, But also philosophy, language, religion, and more. We bring in top research scientists who are also very good communicators, from all over the world.

We pay travel expenses and a modest stipend. We raise much of the funds from various departments and other programs at the University. However, we also seek and accept donations from other organizations and from private individuals. You can find out how to give here:  http://evolution.ua.edu/supporters.html

First lecture this year: https://www.facebook.com/ALLELEseries "Human skin color is an evolutionary adaptation, not a racial characteristic," Nina Jablonski, September 15, Biology Auditorium, 7:30 PM, University of Alabama campus.

all lectures are free and open to the public

Mars lecture canceled

The speaker scheduled for April 20 was unable to make it, and no replacement could be found, so the lecture has been, regretfully, canceled.

Evolution lecture in Tuscaloosa

Casey Dunn, on the importance of poorly known taxa. Thursday night, University of Alabama, North Lawn Hall, 7:30 PM, free and open to the public.

http://evolution.ua.edu/2016-17-series.html/

This is part of ALLELE, the University of Alabama's long-running series of lectures by internationally acclaimed scientists on all different aspects of evolution. Many of these lectures are available on iTunes U, and parts of some of them appear in the new video series Speaking Evolution http://www.speakingevolution.org/

Evolution, in your brain

http://evolution.ua.edu/2016-17-series.html/#Reid

This Thursday evening at 730, here in Tuscaloosa, Michael Anderson will be talking about brain evolution. I am really looking forward to this lecture (which is free and open to the public). There is a lot we don't know about how our brains work, and a lot more we don't know about how they came to be the way they are. It is an important area of research that should be of interest to everyone. After all, it is about us.

There are two more lectures after this one. And that is just the semester!

Evolution lecture tonight in Tuscaloosa

Ann Reid, of the National Center for Science Education, talking about evolution and education in America. 7:30 PM in Tuscaloosa, North Lawn Hall of the University of Alabama, free and open to the public.


http://evolution.ua.edu/2016-17-series.html/#Reid

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We now have the posters for the spring 2017 allele lecture series, lectures about evolution that are free and open to the public, on the University of Alabama campus. If you have a good place to put one up, and can come by to get it, let me know.

David

ALLELE lectures spring 2017

 

http://evolution.ua.edu/