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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:<em>Please join us for the rescheduled 2012 Lorraine Grace lectureship on s
 ocietal issues of biomedical research:</em><br /><br /><span style="font-si
 ze: 10pt;"><strong>Hominid Evolution<br /><em>How it has shaped human behav
 ior, ethics and morality</em></strong></span><br /><br />Wednesday, Feb 13,
  2013<br />7:00pm<br />Grace Auditorium<br /><br /><strong>SPEAKER:</strong
 ><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http:/
 /turkanabasin.org/index.php"><img style="margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px
 ; margin-bottom: 5px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color:
  #000000; float: left;" src="http://www.turkanabasin.org/images/stories/abo
 ut/richard-welcome.jpg" />Richard E. Leakey</a></span><br /><span style="fo
 nt-size: 10pt;">Professor, Chair</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
 >Turkana Basin Institute</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Stony B
 rook University, Department of Anthropology</span><br /><br /><em>Paleoanth
 ropologist, political advisor, and environmentalist <strong>Richard Leakey<
 /strong> 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 20
 th Century.<br /><br />Son of the Louis B. and Mary, Leakey and his family 
 have been credited with some of the most significant fossil discoveries in 
 history. The Leakeys have unearthed Proconsul africanus, Australopithicus b
 oisei, Homo habilis, and the footprints of Australopithecus afarensis, know
 n as the skeleton "Lucy." Leakey's own team discovered the most intact earl
 y human skeleton ever found, nicknamed "Turkana Boy" and referred to as eit
 her Homo erectus or Homo ergaster in 1984.<br /><br />The author of over 10
 0 articles and books, Leakey examined the five great catastrophic extinctio
 ns in the history of the planet in his book, The Sixth Extinction. Written 
 in 1995, before recent increased environmental awareness, Leakey stressed h
 ow human beings are dangerously reducing biodiversity, damaging eco-systems
  and possibly precipitating the next major mass extinction, which could aff
 ect humans.<br /><br />His other books include Origins, Origins Reconsidere
 d, The Origins of Humankind, and Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's N
 atural Treasures. In 2011 Leakey served as a consultant on the IMAX film Bo
 rn To Be Wild. His latest National Geographic film project Bones of Turkana
  premiered in May 2012 on PBS. Currently, an IMAX adaptation of The Sixth E
 xtinction is in the works.<br /><br />Leakey entered the world of politics 
 in 1994, helping to form a political party opposed to the country's corrupt
  government. He was appointed to then President Moi's cabinet, as Director 
 of Kenyan Wildlife Services in an attempt to curtail elephant poaching. Lea
 key also served as Director of the National Museums of Kenya. He left polit
 ics in 2001 in order to form his own political party to fight government co
 rruption.<br /><br />Now a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook Univers
 ity and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS), Leakey has 
 convened the Stony Brook World Environmental Forum and the Human Evolution 
 Symposiums and Workshops. He is Chair of The Turkana Basin Institute at Sto
 ny Brook and Transparency International-Kenya.<br /><br />Leakey is the fou
 nder of WildlifeDirect, an online service that supports conservationists an
 d allows people to help save the world's most endangered species.</em><br /
 ><br />This lecture is free and open to the public.<br />Questions? Call 51
 6-367-8455

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