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Stamford Raffles Lecture 2007 - Steve Jones "Is man just another animal?"
Dates: 19 Jun 2007
Times: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
We are delighted to announce that the 2007 Stamford Raffles Lecture will be given by eminent speaker Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London. “Is man just another animal?” will explore the similarities and differences between human DNA and that of our relatives and will examine Gilbert and Sullivan’s claim that "Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved".
J. Steve Jones PhD, Professor of Genetics, University College London
The completion of the human and chimpanzee genome sequences was a triumph of comparative anatomy. It proved (as if any biologist doubted it) Darwin's contention in The Descent of Man that "Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin". I will talk about the similarities - and the differences - between our own DNA and that of our relatives and about what that tells us about our own taxonomic position as medium-sized mammals.
© ZSLMore importantly, I will try to go beyond comparative anatomy to ask whether that science helps us to understand what we are as human beings, rather than merely as rather unspecialised primates. Gilbert and Sullivan once claimed that "Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved". I will ask how right, or otherwise, they may have been.
Tickets
Admission to the lecture and reception is by ticket only.
Tickets are limited and must be booked by Thursday, 31 May.
Guests are requested to arrive by 6.45pm; the Lecture will begin at 7pm prompt.
A reception will follow the lecture and is scheduled between 8 and 9.30pm.
Tickets are £20 each; £15 for ZSL Members/Fellows and students.
Please note that this event was part of the 2006-07 Scientific Meetings programme
Further Information: please contact Joy Miller, Scientific Meetings Coordinator, Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY.
Tel:+44 (0)20 7449 6227. Fax: +44 (0)20 7449 6411. E-mail: joy.miller@zsl.org.
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Details of previous Stamford Raffles Lectures
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