UA Evolutionary Studies Program

Public lecture by Dr. Elliott Sober - "Darwin and Intelligent Design"

Thursday 10/13 @ 7:30pm
125 ten Hoor Hall

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This will be an interesting talk! Please join us! Free and open to the public.

Public lecture by Dr. Elliott Sober - "Darwin and Intelligent Design"

Thursday 10/13 @ 7:30pm
125 ten Hoor Hall

We had a great turnout for at the Alabama Museum of Natural History! We showed the Pleistocene-Holocene flooding surface from Mobile Bay, giant oysters, corals, sea snails, and even microfossils from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica! You can’t talk about the Pleistocene without talking about ice sheets & sea level!

Thanks to everyone who helped out, especially our dedicated EvoS students and Geology students!

Please join us for an amazing ALLELE (Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution) tonight! The prolific Dr. David Sloan Wilson will speak about completing the Darwinian Revolution. A book signing will follow.

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Exciting news: Stolen Moundville artifacts recovered after 40 years!

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Starting 2019, Dr. Richards in Philosophy will be offering a class on “Art and Human Nature” (PHL 388), which involves some philosophy but also a lot of evolution, psychology, and neurobiology (and his book, The Biology of Art). You can receive EvoS elective credit for this course.

Art & Human Nature course Starting 2019, Dr. Richards in Philosophy will be offering a class on “Art and Human Nature” (PHL 388), which involves some philosophy but also a lot of evolution, psychology, and neurobiology (and…