Most recent public lectures are video-recorded. Click the title for the speaker name, a full description of the talk, and a transcript.

Audio: The Evolution of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics

Our ancestors hunted big game for the same reasons some of us drive fancy cars or carry a designer handbag: status. The hunters were hungry for prestige, and the meat was a bonus.

The Evolution of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics

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Video: Climate, Water, and the Evolution of Early Societies: From the Tropical Maya Lowlands to the Arid Puebloan Southwest

See also: Public Lectures, Archaeology, Named Lecture Series, Gordon R. Willey Lecture, Mexico and Central America, North America

The earliest complex societies found in the Western Hemisphere developed... Read more about Video: Climate, Water, and the Evolution of Early Societies: From the Tropical Maya Lowlands to the Arid Puebloan Southwest

Video: Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins

Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo... Read more about Video: Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins

Video: Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder

See also: Public Lectures, Evolution, Museums, Race, Representation & Museums, Named Lecture Series, North America

In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin proposed that all humans... Read more about Video: Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder

Video: Teeth and Human Evolution

See also: Public Lectures, Evolution, Asia, Europe

Modern humans and our closest-living ape relatives differ in developmental and reproductive biology... Read more about Video: Teeth and Human Evolution