Teaching Resources from the 2011 Evolution Symposium Now Available

October 21, 2011

The eighth annual evolution symposium and workshop on "Changing Humans in a Changing Environment" took place on October 14th at the NABT Professional Development Conference, and NESCent staff created a collection of teaching resources for the event.  The collections contains information about the four speakers, their research, and related research about human evolution in the form of journal articles, videos, podcasts, websites, and more!

2011 NESCent/AIBS Evolution Symposium speakers:

• Rick Potts, Smithsonian Institution Human Origins Program: The challenges of becoming human: Evolution in an era of dramatic climate change
• Jill Pruetz, Iowa State University: What can chimpanzees tell us about human evolution?
• Susan Antón, New York University: Becoming human in a changing world: the early evolution of Homo.
• John Hawks, University of Wisconsin - Madison: New discoveries from ancient genomes

For more information about this event, go to: http://www.nescent.org/media/NABTSymposium2011.php, and to access the free online collection of resources, go to: http://www.nescent.org/media/NABT2011/index.html