Explore an amazing variety of tree forms using pencil and paper in beautiful Mount Auburn Cemetery. Students will focus on capturing the shapes and volume of trunks and branches and on learning techniques for drawing foliage. All skill levels are welcome.
Instructor: Erica Beade
This class is full. Please email reservations to be added to the wait list. Fees: $35 members/$40 nonmembers. Advance registration required. ...
Tanya M. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Modern humans and our closest-living ape relatives differ in developmental and reproductive biology, as well as in lifespans, but evolutionary anthropologists do not know when these distinctive characteristics evolved. It might seem that our development is invisible in the fossil record, but much can be learned from the faithful records of birth and growth embedded in teeth. Tanya Smith will discuss how she studies fossil teeth with...
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street
With bizarre woodpecker-like primates, dwarf humans, and flightless birds over nine feet high, islands are havens for some of the most unusual living creatures on our planet. Why are islands such hotspots of biodiversity and how does evolution work within these isolated pockets of life? Islands: Evolving in Isolation is a new Harvard Museum of Natural History exhibition that unravels the mysteries of island biodiversity and evolution. Packed with examples from around the globe, the exhibition brings together an enormous array of plant and animal specimens, including lizards, giant...
Ariel Mitnick, Rainer Crosett, and Alan Toda-Ambaras, Project LENS, Dr. David Silbersweig, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Institute for the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women's...
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street
Following the exhibition opening lecture,Islands: Natural Laboratories of Evolution, join fellow members for a reception celebrating the opening of Islands: Evolving in Isolation, and preview the newest exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.