Saturday,
Feb. 20
Family Darwin Day Activities at Da Vinci Science Center: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
An address
by one of the world's most prominent experts in human evolution will highlight
the Lehigh Valley Darwin Day 2010 Celebration - a joint program by Cedar Crest
College and the Da Vinci Science Center - on Saturday, Feb. 20.
Dr. Ian Tattersall, paleoanthropologist and curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, will deliver the event's keynote address - titled "Charles Darwin and the Human Fossil Record" - at 4 p.m. in Cedar Crest College's Alumnae Auditorium.
The celebration will begin with Family Darwin Day programs at the Da Vinci Science Center from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Faculty members from Cedar Crest College and Lehigh University will make short presentations on evolution for adults and provide hands-on activities for children. Family Darwin Day programs will be included with paid Da Vinci Science Center admission.
Admission to Dr. Ian Tattersall's address will be free, but pre-registration with Cedar Crest College's Special Events Hotline at 610.740.3791 is recommended. Additional details about Dr. Tattersall can be found on the web at www.cedarcrest.edu/darwinday.
The regional Darwin Day event will be part of an international Darwin Day celebration. Darwin Day highlights the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin - the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor.
Tattersall has authored more than 300 scientific publications and 16 books, including "Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness," as well as "Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves," which was published in 2008.
Trained in archaeology
and anthropology at Cambridge, and in geology and vertebrate paleontology
at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in the analysis
of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the
origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of
the lemurs of Madagascar.
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