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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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Prof. Gabriela Mangano is speaking tonight about what trace fossils can teach us about macroevolution, North Lawn Hall, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 7:30 PM, free and open to the public. She is a great speaker and if you can go to this talk you should not miss it.

http://evolution.ua.edu/

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February 21, Dr. Patricia Wright will speak about rainforests and the primates that live in them, in Tuscaloosa Alabama. This is part of the ALLELE evolution lecture series. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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

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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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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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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!

Ebola lecture, Tuscaloosa

Talk this Friday,  February 24th, 1:30 pm, ten Hoor 30, UA, Tuscaloosa
Dr. Rob Wallace (author of "Big Farms, Big Flu"; and "Neoliberal Ebola")
University of Minnesota

Title: Bird flu, Ebola, and Zika: When Evolution Meets Political Economy
Our economy is transforming planet Earth into planet Farm. Agribusiness’s impact extends to the deadliest of diseases. Ebola and Zika both recently re-emerged when logging, mining, and intensive agriculture opened up neotropical forests to their escape. There are other pathogens evolving more directly off megafarms. We can model such connections, but there are broader implications in play as well. The search for a more perspicacious evolutionary biology is not necessarily divided from the fight for a better world. Hume's guillotine and Moore's naturalist fallacy, wise cautionaries at the heart of much of the natural sciences, are often circumstantially fallacious.  Whereas many a new scientist is taught in the lab--as opposed to the classroom--that conducting good research revolves around avoiding professionally awkward study questions, in actuality the struggles for truth and justice can be deeply entwined. 

Special thanks to the Department of Anthropology, the Blount Initiative, New College, and the EVOS program for sponsoring this lecture. 

Darwin Day in Birmingham

And don't forget, Southeastern Evolutionary Perspective Society meeting in Tuscaloosa Thursday through Saturday. Thursday is for teachers and it's free. Friday and Saturday is for professionals; registration is $110 and includes keynote lecture and tender as well as two days of conference talks:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SEEvoPerspectives/

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/