American Museum of Natural History Curator to Lecture on Human Evolution12:52PM / Friday, January 09, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Ian Tattersall, curator in the division of anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, will give a lecture titled "Becoming Human: Patterns of Innovation in Human Evolution" on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3. The lecture is one in the series of Richmond Lectures sponsored by The Oakley Center.
Tattersall is the author of the "Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves" (2007), "Hall of Human Origins" (2007), "The Monkey in the Mirror" (2002), and "Extinct Humans" (2000), among others. Tattersall is currently working on a multi-volume project to document major human fossil records.
He has been responsible for several major exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, including Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity and the highly acclaimed Hall of Human Biology and Evolution.
Trained in archaeology, anthropology, geology, and vertebrate paleontology, Tattersall has concentrated his research 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 lemurs in Madagascar.
Born in England and raised in East Africa, his primatological and paleontological fieldwork was carried out in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen, and Mauritius. Tattersall received his B.A. from Cambridge and his Ph.D. from Yale University. |
