Dr. James DeGregori, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Deputy Director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Title: "The evolution of adaptive landscapes for somatic mutations to maximize animal fitness"

Dr. James DeGregori, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Deputy Director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Title: "An evolutionary understanding for aging and disease'"

Dr. Joshua Banta, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Environment, Biodiversity, and Conservation at the University of Texas at Tyler. Title: "When Neanderthals, Hobbits, and our Ancestors Shared 'Middle Earth'"

Dr. Michael Muehlenbein, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Baylor University. Title: "One Health and Travel/Conservation Medicine: The Environmental Psychology of Biophilia and Risk Perception"

Dr. Michael Muehlenbein, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Baylor University. Title: "Hormones and Immunity in Evolutionary Perspective"

Dr. Jeffrey Barrick, Associate Professor and Lorene Morrow Kelley Professor of Microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin. Title: "New and confusing: how fossil discoveries have continually challenged our understanding of human evolution"

Dr. Darryl De Ruiter, Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University. Title: "New and confusing: how fossil discoveries have continually challenged our understanding of human evolution"

Dr. Darryl De Ruiter, Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University. Title: "A Tale of Two Body Plans: Australopithecus sediba, Homo naledi, and the origin of the genus Homo"

Dr. Sean Carroll, Head of the Department of Science Education of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair of Biology at the University of Maryland. Title: "The Serengeti Rules'"

Dr. Joshua Banta, Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Tyler. Title: "When Neanderthals, hobbits, and our ancestors shared 'Middle Earth'"