Lectures tagged "evolution"

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
February 2, 2010
00:49:06
Award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein reads from her new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. After Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's dubbed "the atheist with a soul" and becomes a celebrity.
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.
Natural History, Aesthetics, and Conservation
Harry W. Greene
May 23, 2007
01:05:06
Harry W. Greene discusses what there is to like about snakes, frogs, and crocodiles using the insights of Charles Darwin and Immanuel Kant.
Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Y Chromosome
David Page
March 27, 2007
00:52:59
David Page examines the Y chromosome's architectural beauty, evolutionary dynamism, and critical role in male infertility.
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Evolution as a Tool Kit for Understanding Human Disease
Harvey Lodish
March 13, 2007
00:33:58
Harvey Lodish explains how research on "lower" organisms has provided insights into, and facilitated development of therapies for, several human diseases. Comprehensive studies of genes and proteins from many organisms are giving us an extraordinary documentation of the history of life.
Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma
Marc Kirschner
November 30, 2005
00:57:13
Two biologists, Harvard's Marc Kirschner and Berkeley's John Gerhart, use current research in genetics and evolutionary biology to propose a scientific explanation of nature's variety.
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Hunting for Hominid Fossils in Ethiopia's Afar Desert
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
August 25, 2005
00:30:20
The Afar region of Ethiopia has been dubbed the cradle of humankind due to the wealth of information it has yielded in the study of human origins. Sites from this region have yielded the fossil remains of at least 11 early hominid species.