Marking the 151^st Anniversary of the Publication of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”

 

Darwin and the Debate over Human Origins

 

Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

The Broad Institute Auditorium

(Main St. at Ames St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA)

  

Apes in Our Family Tree

Prof. Janet Browne

Department of the History of Science
Harvard University

Evidence for Gene Flow from

Neanderthals into Modern Humans

Prof. David Reich, Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Inherited Disease and Human Evolution

Prof. David Housman

MIT Center for Cancer Research

 

The Continuing Controversy over Teaching Evolution

Prof. John Durant

Director, MIT Museum

 

Free and open to the MIT community and the general public