Event Time:
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
OC Marsh Lecture Hall, Yale Science Building
260 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT
Event Description:
Why is evolution seemingly a story of fits and starts, with long periods of relative stability interrupted by rapid transitions? What allows some species to survive and quickly exploit new opportunities, while others go extinct? Why do the same forms evolve over and over again in different groups, at different times, and in different places, while many hypothetical forms never evolve at all? With information from thousands of extinct and living animals, including dinosaurs and big cats, we now understand more about evolution than ever before, and we’ve learned that with great change comes great unpredictability.
Award-winning paleobiologist Anjali Goswami of the Natural History Museum in London tackles a simple, but deeply profound question: why has life on Earth evolved the way that it has?
This talk is a part of the John H. Ostrom Lecture Series.
Open to ALL; recommended for ages 10 and older. Register here.