Canceled: The Last Common Ancestor

CANCELED
When:
Thursday, Apr 30, 2020 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Geological Lecture Hall
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/last-common-ancestor

We regret to announce that this event has been canceled. In light of the ongoing concerns regarding COVID-19, future public programs at the museum may also be subject to cancellations. Please visit our website for the latest updates, and thank you for your patience.

Thank you in advance for your understanding during these uncertain times.


Evolution Matters Lecture Series. Free Public Lecture.
Ashley S. Hammond, Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School; Biological Anthropology Curator, American Museum of Natural History


The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and modern humans is believed to have evolved in Africa six to eight million years ago. Finding fossil apes and hominins—extinct members of the human lineage—from this period has been challenging. Ashley Hammond will discuss her approach to identifying key evolutionary adaptations of this last common ancestor using 3D technology, analyses of known fossils, and field research at six- million-year-old sites in Kenya. Hammond’s research aims to clarify the origins of bipedality, a key adaptation in human evolution.


Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

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