Please join us for the 2021 Ben and Jeanne Overman Distinguished Speakers Series featuring Dr. Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Potts founded and directs the Human Origins Program at the
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. After
receiving his PhD in biological anthropology at Harvard University in
1982, he taught at Yale before joining the Smithsonian in 1985. Potts’s
research investigates Earth’s environmental dynamics and the origin of
human adaptations. In partnership with the National Museums of Kenya,
Potts leads ongoing excavations in southern and western Kenya. He also
conducts field projects in southeastern and northern China. His ideas
about how environmental instability has influenced human evolution
stimulated ongoing discussions in Earth sciences, paleontology, and
computational biology. He is the curator of the Smithsonian’s Hall of
Human Origins and of the exhibit “Exploring Human Origins”, which has
been traveling across the U.S. since 2015. Rick is author of over 200 research publications including the exhibit companion book What Does It Mean To Be Human?
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Generous support for this conference provided by the Ben and Jeanne Overman
Distinguished Speaker Series Conference fund with coordination from the
Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities subcommittee and my
office.
We hope that you can join us.
Sincerely,
Lendley C. Black
Chancellor |
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