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SUMMARY:Darwin Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for our Darwin Day 2025 Lecture!\n\nNina Jablonski
\, Ph.D.\, Atherton and Evan Pugh Professor Emerita of Anthropology\, wi
ll be presenting her talk “The Skin in the Game of Evolution: How Human
Skin Illustrates Darwinian Evolution and Much More”\n\nEverything about
human skin\, from its apparent nakedness and potential sweatiness to its
many inherent colors and exquisite sensitivity\, is the product of evol
ution. This lecture will draw upon the rich and diverse evidence from pa
leontology\, physiology\, climatology\, genetics\, microbiology\, and ot
her fields that has led to our current understanding of the evolution of
human skin. It will also explore how the preeminence of vision and lang
uage in humans paved the way for our ability to rapidly assess skin trai
ts and then transmit impressions and value judgements of skin color and
other traits to others\, often with disastrous results. Learning the bas
ics of skin evolution instills valuable information about Darwinian evol
ution and a deep appreciation of the beauty of human diversity. It also
provides the foundation of an educational curriculum for an anti-racist
world.\n\nLight reception immediately following the lecture in the Chaik
en Family Atrium.\n\nCo-sponsored by the Center for Human Evolution and
Diversity in the College of the Liberal Arts and the Huck Institutes of
the Life Sciences\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/d
arwin-day-2025/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for our
Darwin Day 2025 Lecture!
Nina Jablonski, Ph.D.,
Atherton and Evan Pugh Professor Emerita of Anthropology, will be presen
ting her talk “The Skin in the Game of Evolution: How Human Skin Illustr
ates Darwinian Evolution and Much More”
Everything about human ski
n, from its apparent nakedness and potential sweatiness to its many inhe
rent colors and exquisite sensitivity, is the product of evolution. This
lecture will draw upon the rich and diverse evidence from paleontology,
physiology, climatology, genetics, microbiology, and other fields that
has led to our current understanding of the evolution of human skin. It
will also explore how the preeminence of vision and language in humans p
aved the way for our ability to rapidly assess skin traits and then tran
smit impressions and value judgements of skin color and other traits to
others, often with disastrous results. Learning the basics of skin evolu
tion instills valuable information about Darwinian evolution and a deep
appreciation of the beauty of human diversity. It also provides the foun
dation of an educational curriculum for an anti-racist world.
Light reception immediately following the lecture in the Chaiken Fam
ily Atrium.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Human Evolutio
n and Diversity in the College of the Liberal Arts and the Huck Institut
es of the Life Sciences
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/darwi
n-day-2025/
LOCATION:114 Welch Building
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