Friday 5 April 2019 1:00pm
Clare College Cambridge
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This outreach initiative will involve several members of our SRI's Steering Committee who will be talking on the following subjects:
Friday April, 5th
Dr. Mike McNamee: ‘The history of IVF’. Visit to Bourn Hall clinic were the first IVF procedure worldwide was performed.
Professor Graham Burton: ‘An introduction on evolution and reproduction’. The story on the pelvis and bipedalism’
Saturday April 6th
Rebecca Flemming: ‘Generation in the Ancient World’
Emma Pomeroy: ‘Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans (and others?): Ancient interbreeding and its contemporary implications’ (evolutionary biology/ biological anthropology)
Emma Pomeroy: ‘Models of evolution’. Informal ‘hands on’ session with casts of relevant fossils. Replicas of ‘Lucy’ the australopithecine, the Nariokotome boy, as well as great apes and humans (e.g. a Neanderthal replica skull)
Sunday April 7th
Nick Hopwood: ‘Modern Reproduction: Technologies of Conception’
Aylwyn Scally: ‘Germline mutation and the evolutionary genetics of human phenotypes and populations’
Leah Astbury: ‘Generation in the early modern English home’