Lecture: How Cooking Made Us Human, Wednesday, January 27

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Program with Richard Wrangham

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 6:00 PM

In his latest book, Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological

Anthropology at Harvard, puts forth the bold theory that our Paleolithic Homo ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much earlier than conventionally believed. Wrangham will discuss how cooking started a revolution in human evolution, which drove large-scale changes in our physiology, behavior, and cognition and has defined our species to this very day. The program will include a discussion moderated by Noel Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard. Free and open to the public in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 

• 617.495.3045
• hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu

Lecture: How Apes and Monkeys May Help Us Understand the Economic Crisis , October 08

When	Thu., Oct. 8, 2009, 6 – 7 p.m.
Where	Harvard Museum of Natural History
Type of Event	Environmental Sciences, Presentation/Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor	Harvard Museum of Natural History
Speaker(s)	Marc Hauser, director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard
Cost	Free and open to the public
Contact Info	617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu
Note	Humans are the cause of the current global economic crisis. Can Darwin and our primate relatives provide some insight into the world’s problems? In this lecture, Marc Hauser, director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard, argues that many of the problems in our own economic decision-making can be traced back millions of years when our primate ancestors were small-brained quadrupeds lacking any concept of money or the stock market. Cosponsored with Zoo New England. Free and open to the public.
Link	www.hmnh.harvard.edu