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NAME
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TITLE
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DATE
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2000
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Grotzinger, John
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Stromatolite morphogenesis
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2/14/00
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Palumbi, Stephen
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Right before your eyes:
how humans cause rapid evolution
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2/14/00
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Beattie, David
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Modern vaccine strategies
for an ancient disease
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2/15/00
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Morgan, Lynn M.
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Cross-cultural
perspectives on human embryology
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2/15/00
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Pierce, Naomi E.
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Nabokov's Lycaenidae: cradle-robbing, meat-eating, and ant-loving
caterpillars
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2/16/00
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Wrangham, Richard W.
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Chimpanzee cultures and
human evolution
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2/16/00
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Lambalot, Katherine
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Drinking and Driving: A
Survivor's Story
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2/16/00
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Christianson, Gale E.
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Global warming: the
evolution of an idea
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2/17/00
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Sulloway, Frank, J.
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Birth order, family
dynamics, and creative lives: from darwinian evolution
to world history
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2/17/00
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2001
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Hauser, Marc
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To
understand the evolution of the human mind, don't study humans: the problem
of language and number
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2/12/01
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Pendlebury, William
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Aging, dementia, and
Alzheimer's disease
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2/12/01
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Zaichik, Mark (moderator)
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Media,
Democracy And Public Opinion: The Good Earth (a panel discussion on global
warming)
With:
Eric Alterman,
Paul S. Appelbaum, Eric Mazur, Michael McElroy,
Thomas E. Patterson, and John F. Tierney
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2/12/01
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Sanchez,
Harold
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Darwin's
illness
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2/13/01
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Jackson,
Bruce
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Find
your roots with forensic dna science
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2/13/01
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Southworth, Maurice
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Inteins - the discovery, explorations, and novel
use of a new 'species' of protein
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2/14/01
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Annas, George
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Should
we use the new genetics to take human evolution into our own hands
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2/14/01
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DeMaria, Alfred
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Birds,
mosquitoes, horses, and humans: what happens when an infectious disease
really does emerge
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2/15/01
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Rinker,
H. Bruce
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Darwin
in the treetops: evolution in the emerging science of canopy ecology
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2/15/01
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Newman,
Dava
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Human
spaceflight: from mir to mars
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2/16/01
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Schwartz,
Joel
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Such
intense delight: how the marine chronometer influenced development of the theory
of evolution
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2/16/01
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Franks,
C. Eben
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Mud,
molecules, and mass-specs: paleoclimate research
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2/16/01
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2002
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Tapley, David
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A
radical view of symbiosis
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2/11/02
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Davis,
Mike (moderator)
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Mercury rising
– learning about the detrimental effects of mercury on the environment and
human health
With:
Edward Bailey, Jane Bright, Mark Pokras, And
Elizabeth Saunders
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2/11/02
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Ewald, Paul
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Catching
on to what's catching: the startling scope of infectious diseases
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2/12/02
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Danielson,
Bill
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The wild
side of western Mass
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2/12/02
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Seielstad, Mark
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Genetic
archeology and the impact of culture on human variation
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2/12/02
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Schneider,
Christopher
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On the origin
of species: did Darwin have it right?
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2/13/02
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Cullen,
James L.
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How we
use the ooze: using microfossils in North Atlantic deep-sea sediments to
document quaternary climate variability
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2/13/02
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Spelke, Elizabeth
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What makes
humans smart? Core knowledge and combinatorial capacity
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2/13/02
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Crompton,
Alfred W.
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When is
a mammal a mammal? New evidence on mammalian origins
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2/14/02
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Kates, Robert W.
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Sustainability
science: meeting human needs, preserving planet life supports
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2/14/02
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Case,
Susan & Niebuhr, David
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Lessons
from Darwin, a conversation about science education
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2/14/02
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Halpern, Sue
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Doing
science on the wing: monarch butterflies and how we learn
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2/15/02
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Klassen, David
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Investigations
of frosts and clouds on mars
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2/15/02
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2003
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Guild
Players Touring Company
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The
Sandwalk
|
2/10/03
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Jaenisch, Rudolf
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Nuclear
cloning and reprogramming of the genome
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2/11/03
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Primack, Richard
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Tropical
rain forests: an ecological and biogeographical
comparison
|
2/11/03
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Etter, Ron
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Our
last frontier: the deep sea – its extraordinarily rich and unusual fauna
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2/12/03
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Hanken, James
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Biodiversity
in crisis: the science of amphibian declines
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2/12/03
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Spelke, Elizabeth
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Core
knowledge
|
2/12/03
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Janes, Kenneth
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The
search for planets - and life - beyond the solar system
|
2/13/03
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Beatty,
Susan
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Of
earth, wind and fire: disturbance rules
|
2/13/03
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Turner,
J. Scott
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Extended
organisms, emergent physiology and the evolutionary biology of Gaia
|
2/14/03
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Gibbons,
Michael
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The
tales bones tell
|
2/14/03
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2004
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Stone, Lori
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More than words can say:
language and attachment style
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2/9/04
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Pepperberg, Irene
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In search of King
Solomon’s ring: communication and cognition in grey parrots
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2/9/04
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Kricher, John
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Darwin,
Galapagos, and Wallace
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2/9/04
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Selavka, Carl
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Don’t trust CSI – life in
a real crime lab
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2/10/04
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Tattersall, Ian
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Becoming human
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2/10/04
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Ritvo, Harriet
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The
dawn of green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the
Victorian environment
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2/11/04
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Urton, Gary
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Writing in binary code in
the Incan quipas
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2/11/04
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Teicher, Martin
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Childhood abuse and brain
development from a Darwinian perspective
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2/12/04
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Turner, B. L.
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Integrated land-change
science and the southern Yucatan
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2/12/04
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Leckie, Mark
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Linkages between
tectonics, climate change, and
biotic evolution: the oceanic anoxic events of the mid-cretaceous
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2/13/04
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Kornfield, Irv
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African cichlid fishes:
Darwin would be proud
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2/13/04
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2005
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Mires, Ann Marie
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Integrating
technology in the location and analysis of clandestine graves
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2/14/05
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Livingstone,
Margaret
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Vision
and art
|
2/14/05
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Costanza, Robert
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Ecological
economics: Reintegrating the study of humans and the rest of nNature to create a sustainable and desirable future
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2/15/05
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Hoffman,
Paul F.
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Did a global glaciation
(snowball Earth) light the fuse for the Cambrian explosion?
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2/15/05
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Johnson,
Arthur
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Preparing for and responding to biological agent
threats
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2/16/05
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Delissio, Lisa
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Cultural and biological diversity in Malaysian
Borneo
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2/16/05
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Bhattacharya,
Madhumita
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Do bumblebees cross roads? The impact of habitat
fragmentation on bumblebee movement in a temperate suburban habitat
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2/17/05
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Waller,
William
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Cosmic evolution from the galaxies to the Galapagos
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2/17/05
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Edwards,
Scott
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The
evolution of birds through the lens of DNA
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2/18/05
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Costa,
James T.
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One long argument: a guide to the philosophical
structure of Darwin’s Origin of Species
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2/18/05
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2006
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Curry, William
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The
geological record of ocean circulation and climate
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4/10/06
(rescheduled)
|
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Heinrich, Bernd
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Mind of the raven
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4/10/06
(rescheduled)
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Pedersen, Judith
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Marine bioinvasions: ecological impacts and evolutionary
consequences
|
2/14/06
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Lewontin, Richard C.
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Genomania
|
2/14/06
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Mikkelsen, Tarjei
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Extreme geneology: sequencing the chimpanzee genome
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2/14/06
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Scott, Elizabeth
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Are we too clean? hygiene myths and realities
|
2/15/06
|
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Crompton, Alfred W.
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Parallel
evolution in Australian mammals
|
2/15/06
|
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Skomal, Gregory
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Jaws revisited: the great
white shark of Naushon Island
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2/15/06
|
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Clark, William
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Science and technology
for sustainable development
|
2/16/06
|
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Gleiser, Marcelo
|
Thoughts on life and
design, here and elsewhere in the cosmos
|
2/16/06
|
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Rieseberg, Loren
|
Plant species and
speciation
|
2/17/06
|
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Epstein, Paul
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Health, ecological, and economic dimensions of climate
instability
|
2/17/06
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2007
|
|
|
|
Philip
Reilly
|
DNA
forensics: 1985-2025
|
2/12/07
|
|
Ksenija Borojevic
|
Terra
and silva in the Pannonian
plain
|
2/12/07
|
|
Brad
Hubeny
|
Paleoclimate variability in new england
and the midwest as recorded by mud
|
2/13/07
|
|
Lehrer
Singh
|
The role of vocal emotion in early language
learning
|
2/13/07
|
|
Andrea Bogomolni
|
Marine
mammals: sentinels of our ecology
|
2/13/07
|
|
Joseph
Ayers
|
Building brains for underwater robots
|
2/15/07
|
|
Sucharita Gopal
|
The
eternal triangle: science, people and public policy in managing and
sustaining marine areas
|
2/15/07
|
|
Alfred
DeMaria Jr.
|
Justifying insecticiding?
Mosquitoes, viruses, human disease and the environment in Massachusetts
|
2/16/07
|
|
Benjamin
Rosenthal
|
Our
pathogens, ourselves: evolutionary responses to human ecology and
agriculture
|
2/16/07
|
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Owen
Gingerich
|
Is
Pluto a planet?
|
4/09/07
(rescheduled)
|
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David Robinson
|
Seeing
the forest for the seas: recent approaches to locating submerged
settlements in southern New England
|
4/25/07
(rescheduled)
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2008
|
|
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Alan M. Young
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Travels down under – unique mammals and birds of Australia
and New Zealand
|
2/11/08
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Gene R. H. Fry
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Global warming – so what?
|
2/12/08
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Robert J. Fleming
|
Cell-to-cell
communication: talking to your neighbor without talking to yourself
|
2/12/08
|
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Pat Shipman
|
Why Darwinian evolution is
science, not religion
|
2/13/08
|
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Jennifer Hughes
|
Comparative analysis of
chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes: traces of an evolutionary tug-of-war
|
2/13/08
|
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Scott Goetz
|
The role of fire in determining
vegetation responses and feedbacks to recent climate change at northern
high latitudes
|
2/13/08
|
|
Amy Litt
|
The evolution of floral
diversity: a molecular perspective
|
2/14/08
|
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Matthew W. Tocheri
|
Humans, hands, and “hobbits”: you might never look at
your hand the same way again
|
2/14/08
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2009
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|
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Ryan Fisher
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Voyage on the HMS Beagle – not quite your Caribbean cruise
|
2/9/09
|
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Akiko Okusu
|
New perspectives on
animal evolution
|
2/9/09
|
|
James Costa
|
One long argument: the
evolution of Darwin’s Origin
|
2/9/09
|
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David Fastovsky
|
Extinction of the
dinosaurs – a 2009 assessment
|
2/10/09
|
|
David Livingstone Smith
|
The most dangerous
animal: human nature and the origins of war
|
2/11/09
|
|
Gordon Gallup Jr.
|
The science of sex
appeal: an evolutionary perspective
|
2/11/09
|
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Ian Hutchinson
|
Before and beyond belligerence:
understanding science and religion from the inside
|
2/11/09
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Guild Players Touring
Company
|
The Sandwalk
|
2/12/09
|
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Richard Primack
|
The impact of climate
change on the birds and flowers of Thoreau's concord
|
2/12/09
|
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Ron Etter
|
The origin and
maintenance of the extraordinary diversity in the deep oceans
|
2/13/09
|
|
Les Kaufman
|
Fishes of a liquid earth:
evolution and conservation in the Lake Victoria region
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2/13/09
|
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Christopher Schneider
|
Local adaptation, sexual selection
and speciation in Anolis
lizards: looking good can lead to sexual isolation
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2/13/09
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