Darwin's Legacy; a symposium in honor of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009
Pearl Hall 101A (new Architecture building adjacent to bookstore)
Organized by Felisa Smith (Biology) & Steven W. Gangestad (Psychology)

1-1:10 p.m. - Felisa Smith, associate professor, Department of Biology & Steven W. Gangestad, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
'Darwin’s legacy – introduction to symposium'

1:10-1:40 p.m. - Keith Hunley, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
'There are no races, there are only nested hierarchies'

1:40-2:10 p.m. - Christopher C. Witt, assistant professor, Department of Biology
'Darwin's hummingbirds'

2:10-2:40 p.m. - Hillard Kaplan, professor, Department of Anthropology
'The evolutionary and ecological roots of human social organization'

2:40-3:10 p.m. - Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, assistant professor, Department of Biology
'Darwin’s warm little pond and the origin of life'

3:10-3:30 p.m. - Break

3:30-4 p.m. - Zachary D. Sharp, professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
'Darwin and the age of the Earth'

4-4:30 p.m. - Randy Thornhill, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology
'The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality'

4:30-5 p.m. - Vaishali Katju, assistant professor, Department of Biology
'What Darwin didn’t know – the origin of new genes'

5-5:30 p.m. - Martin N. Muller, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
'Chimpanzees as models for the last common ancestor of apes and humans'

5:30-7:30 p.m. - Contributed Student Posters and Reception, Pearl Hall Atrium

For further information and or to register for the contributed undergraduate & graduate student poster session contact Fred Whiteman, sbw@unm.edu or Jessica Martin, jesmart@unm.edu for registration information in the Department of Biology.

Posted by scarr at February 10, 2009 09:56 AM