February 10, 2007

Morning Session: 9am - 12pm Humanities 3650

Irreducible Complexity and the Human Eye
Janette Boughman, UW-Madison, Department of Zoology
Elliott Sober, UW-Madison, Department of Philosophy

DNA and Human Evolution
Bret Payseur, UW-Madison, Department of Genetics

An Introduction to Evolutionary Medicine
Michael Muehlenbein, UW-Milwaukee, Department of Anthropology

Afternoon Session: 1pm - 4pm The Geology Museum in Weeks Hall

Interactive displays that explore:
the importance of evolution to medicine and agriculture, sexual
selection, convergent evolution, why flowers are beautiful, farming
and pharmacy in ants, evolutionary trees, transitional fossils,
biogeography, human evolution, and the age of the earth.

Presenters for the displays include faculty, staff, and graduate students from the
departments of Agronomy, Anthropology, Bacteriology, Botany, Geology and
Geophysics, History of Science, Horticulture, and Zoology.