Book Talk: Samuel Wilkinson Yale School of Medicine at Yale Whitney Humanities Center

Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New Haven

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276 6:00 pm Book Discussion about Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence, featuring author Samuel Wilkinson in conversation with Nii Addy, Laura Bridgewater, and John Morley Samuel Wilkinson discusses the evolutionary forces that spur us to be our altruistic selves and what inspired his fascination […]

Talk: Andrew Hendry: The World Without Evolution? at Yale

Yale Science Building 260 Whitney Avenue, New Haven

Typical considerations about rapid evolution and its importance in structuring the world around us emphasize situations where evolution is causing rapid changes in organisms and environments.  Hendry contends that the primary role of evolution is in resisting change. Evolution is why organisms look the same not just across years and decades but across centuries and millennia. […]