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Photosynthesis and Evolution by Duplication

Evolution is most often presented as the accumulation of small, random changes over many millions of years. It can be difficult to imagine how new, highly ordered features that perform novel functions can arise. Over 50 years ago, a landmark book by Dr. Susumu Ohno…

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A New Age of Exploration in Antarctic Biodiversity

Antarctica is increasingly threatened by global climate change. Documenting its biodiversity and understanding the evolution of its species are critical for predicting ecosystem responses to future and ongoing environmental disturbances. The discovery and description of…

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Grasses and Greenery

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture
with Alison Richard

We are a species of storytellers.  The prevailing story of Madagascar evokes an island covered by timeless, lush forest, which people cut down and burned after arriving about 10,000 years ago. But the evidence points to a dynamic and changing landscape of forests and…

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Shiva’s Ape and Brahma's Beast

A largely forgotten Yale collecting expedition in 1932 changed our understanding of evolution and paved the way for modern paleontological studies on the Indian Subcontinent. The fossils brought back to New Haven by a young graduate student named G. Edward Lewis remain in…

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From Bones to Habitats

Where did we evolve? How did the environment affect our evolution? How do we know? What does this mean for our future? Join Dr. Denise Su as she answers these questions and takes us on a journey to our past and a glimpse into our future. Dr. Denise Su engaged in field research at the Laetoli archaeological site, Tanzania… Watch Live Presented by the Department of Anthropology & Yale Peabody Museum. Talks in the Anthropology Department Chair’s Colloquium Series, held once a semester, feature scholars whose research is of broad interest in and beyond Anthropology. Invited speakers for these…

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Madagascar: Journeys Through Time

Join author Alison Richard as she discusses the fascinating biodiversity of Madagascar, drawing from her recently-published book The Sloth Lemur's Song:… This event is presented in partnership with RJ Julia Booksellers who will have copies of The Sloth Lemur’s Song for sale in the lobby. Alison Richard will be available to sign your copy after the program.…

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Disaster, Resistance, Community

Our modern, globalized world shudders from political, social, pandemic, and ecological catastrophes. What lessons can we learn from Indigenous communities for whom the world has ended many times, in disasters both natural and colonial, only to flourish afterward? Since…

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Glass Plankton

How do we know what’s missing from the fossil record? Diatoms—tiny plankton with ornate skeletons made of glass—rule the bottom of the food chain in the ocean today. Although relatively recent in the fossil record, a closer look reveals diatoms may have been important for…

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The Moral Ecology of a Forest

How does environmental change impact the moral ecology of forests? And what do these changes mean for the cultural values of Indigenous and rural communities that rely on them? In the southwestern United States, Pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla) is threatened by drought,…

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What's in the Air?

Last spring, ProPublica reporter Ava Kofman was assigned a major story about an environmental catastrophe. There was just one problem: it wasn’t true. But as that story fell apart, she uncovered larger issues with the underlying environmental data. In this talk, Kofman…

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