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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Hominid Evolution - How it has shaped human behavior, ethics and morality
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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Please join us for the rescheduled 2012 Lorraine Grace lectureship on socie
 tal issues of biomedical research:\n\nHominid Evolution\nHow it has shaped 
 human behavior, ethics and morality\n\nWednesday, Feb 13, 2013\n7:00pm\nGra
 ce Auditorium\n\nSPEAKER:\n\nRichard E. Leakey\nProfessor, Chair\nTurkana B
 asin Institute\nStony Brook University, Department of Anthropology\n\nPaleo
 anthropologist, political advisor, and environmentalist Richard Leakey has 
 been a key voice behind wildlife conservation and preservation for over 40 
 years. He was named one of TIME's 100 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century.\n
 \nSon of the Louis B. and Mary, Leakey and his family have been credited wi
 th some of the most significant fossil discoveries in history. The Leakeys 
 have unearthed Proconsul africanus, Australopithicus boisei, Homo habilis, 
 and the footprints of Australopithecus afarensis, known as the skeleton "Lu
 cy." Leakey's own team discovered the most intact early human skeleton ever
  found, nicknamed "Turkana Boy" and referred to as either Homo erectus or H
 omo ergaster in 1984.\n\nThe author of over 100 articles and books, Leakey 
 examined the five great catastrophic extinctions in the history of the plan
 et in his book, The Sixth Extinction. Written in 1995, before recent increa
 sed environmental awareness, Leakey stressed how human beings are dangerous
 ly reducing biodiversity, damaging eco-systems and possibly precipitating t
 he next major mass extinction, which could affect humans.\n\nHis other book
 s include Origins, Origins Reconsidered, The Origins of Humankind, and Wild
 life Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures. In 2011 Leakey serv
 ed as a consultant on the IMAX film Born To Be Wild. His latest National Ge
 ographic film project Bones of Turkana premiered in May 2012 on PBS. Curren
 tly, an IMAX adaptation of The Sixth Extinction is in the works.\n\nLeakey 
 entered the world of politics in 1994, helping to form a political party op
 posed to the country's corrupt government. He was appointed to then Preside
 nt Moi's cabinet, as Director of Kenyan Wildlife Services in an attempt to 
 curtail elephant poaching. Leakey also served as Director of the National M
 useums of Kenya. He left politics in 2001 in order to form his own politica
 l party to fight government corruption.\n\nNow a Professor of Anthropology 
 at Stony Brook University and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Lon
 don (FRS), Leakey has convened the Stony Brook World Environmental Forum an
 d the Human Evolution Symposiums and Workshops. He is Chair of The Turkana 
 Basin Institute at Stony Brook and Transparency International-Kenya.\n\nLea
 key is the founder of WildlifeDirect, an online service that supports conse
 rvationists and allows people to help save the world's most endangered spec
 ies.\n\nThis lecture is free and open to the public.\nQuestions? Call 516-3
 67-8455

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