Harvard Museum of Natural History Lectures

Cambridge, MA

Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Stephen DeStefano
January 23, 2010
00:55:36
Wildlife biologist Stephen DeStefano, author of Coyote at the Kitchen Door; and photographer Amy Stein, whose work addresses how bears, deer, fox, coyote, and birds are increasingly encroaching upon areas considered to be "ours", discuss the blurred boundary between human life and wildlife
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
November 18, 2009
01:15:14
Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy discusses her newest book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing.
Plant Biodiversity from Our Backyard to the Big Picture
Peter Raven
May 1, 2009
00:57:50
World-renowned botanist and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Center for Plant Conservation, a network of America's leading botanical institu
Nature and the Written Word
Sy Montgomery
January 29, 2009
01:25:07
How can writers best engage and inspire public concern for wildlife, nature, and conservation? Four of New England’s most prominent natural history authors gather to discuss how writers can best engage and inspire public concern for wildlife, nature, and conservation.
John Frederick Walker: Ivory's Ghost
John Frederick Walker
January 17, 2009
00:53:20
John Frederick Walker shares the fascinating story of ivory's enormous impact on both human history and that of its most important source, the majestic African elephant. A century ago, ivory was the plastic of its era.
Maternal-Fetal Conflicts in Human Pregnancy
David Haig
March 13, 2008
01:07:09
David Haig discusses various genetic conflicts that transpire within the human womb and revisits the assumption that what's good for the mother is good for the fetus.
Evolution of Our Moral Intuitions
Marc Hauser
April 26, 2007
00:54:26
Marc Hauser argues that morality, at some level, may be hard-wired into our brains, as an innate "moral grammar" that has evolved with us over time.
Plant Biodiversity from Our Backyard to the Big Picture
Peter Raven
May 1, 2009
00:57:50
World-renowned botanist and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Center for Plant Conservation, a network of America's leading botanical institu
Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Stephen DeStefano
January 23, 2010
00:55:36
Wildlife biologist Stephen DeStefano, author of Coyote at the Kitchen Door; and photographer Amy Stein, whose work addresses how bears, deer, fox, coyote, and birds are increasingly encroaching upon areas considered to be "ours", discuss the blurred boundary between human life and wildlife
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
November 18, 2009
01:15:14
Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy discusses her newest book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing.
John Frederick Walker: Ivory's Ghost
John Frederick Walker
January 17, 2009
00:53:20
John Frederick Walker shares the fascinating story of ivory's enormous impact on both human history and that of its most important source, the majestic African elephant. A century ago, ivory was the plastic of its era.
Maternal-Fetal Conflicts in Human Pregnancy
David Haig
March 13, 2008
01:07:09
David Haig discusses various genetic conflicts that transpire within the human womb and revisits the assumption that what's good for the mother is good for the fetus.

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