SMU continues its yearlong celebration of the 150th publication anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, with three November lectures, all of which are free and open to the public:
Nov. 9, 2009
5 p.m.
McCord Auditorium (306 Dallas Hall)
Patricia Adair Gowaty is a distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, where her research interests include evolutionary ecology and the evolution of behavior. She will speak on "Darwin, Evolution, and the Ecology of Sex Roles."
Nov. 13, 2009
4 p.m.
McCord Auditorium (306 Dallas Hall)
Michael Weisberg , associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Three-Sex Mating (and other biological models without targets)."
Nov. 19, 2009
5 p.m.
McCord Auditorium (306 Dallas Hall)
Jane Buikstra , professor of bioarchaeology and director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research at Arizona State University, will give the Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology. She will speak on "Tuberculosis: a Deep Time Perspective."