Post date: Nov 04, 2010 4:12:1 PM
Marking the 151st 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