Public lectures

 

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) Webinar. September, 2020.

 

 

 

On being human: mythic and scientific perspectives. Dialogue with T. Husain, D. Grinspoon, and M. Gleiser. Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement (ICE) at Dartmouth. November, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Underground astronauts: The search for early human fossils in South Africa. Talk presented during reunion weekend at Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. June, 2016

Introducing Homo naledi. Suds & Science talk presented for Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Norwich, VT. November, 2016.

  1. December. Moderator for 8th Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a discussion of Ardipithecus with B. Kimbel, B. Jungers, and M. Cartmill.

http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/ardi/

 

April. Panel discussant for 7th Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a discussion on the origins of fire with J. Shea, F. Berna, and M. Cartmill. http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/prometheus/

 

February. Participant for 6th Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a discussion

on Unintelligent Design with R. Caspari, K. Rosenberg, B. Latimer, A. Mann, M. Wolpoff, and M.

Cartmill. http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/unintelligentdesign/

 

  1. April. Moderator for 5th Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a

discussion on human sexual dimorphism with J. Michael Plavcan, Phil Reno, Cheryl Knott,

and Matt Cartmill. http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/does_size_matter/

 

  1. October. Participant in 4th Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a

discussion on the evolution of the human pelvis with Steve Churchill, Karen Rosenberg,

Cheryl Knott, and Matt Cartmill. http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/getting-hip/

 

April. Moderator for 3rd Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a

discussion on the origins of genus Homo with Lee Berger, Adam van Arsdale, and Matt

Cartmill. http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/genus-homo/

 

  1. April. Moderator for 1st Boston University “Dialogues in Biological Anthropology”, a

discussion on the “hobbit” Homo floresiensis with Robert Martin, Fred Smith, and Matt

Cartmill. http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/hobbits/