Keynote Lecture >> Neil Shubin on Humans and Creatures
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| Event Name*: |
Keynote Lecture >> Neil Shubin on Humans and Creatures |
| Event Date*: |
04/17/2015 |
| Event Time*: |
7pm-8pm |
| Event Location*: |
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art |
| Other Information: |
Shubin is the popular science author of two books: The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body (2013) and the best-selling Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008). Your Inner Fish was named Best Book of the Year by the National Academy of Sciences, and is now a popular TV show on PBS with Shubin acts as host. Shubin conducted fieldwork in Greenland, China, Canada, and much of North America and Africa, and has discovered some of the earliest mammals, crocodiles, dinosaurs, frogs, and salamanders in the fossil record. One of his most significant discoveries, the 375-million-year-old Tiktaalik roseae fossil, is considered an important transitional form between fish and land animals. The 2006 announcement of the finding received worldwide media coverage and led to Shubin's being named ABC News Person of the Week. Shubin earned his PhD in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. Shubin is the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and associate dean for academic strategy of the university's Biological Sciences Division.
$10 ($8 for Members), register online or by calling Guest Services at 479.657.2335. |
| Contact Person: |
Crystal Bridges Guest Services |
| Phone Number: |
4794185700 |
| Email Address: |
information@crystalbridges.org
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