This Thursday, the animal kingdom will be taking over Manhattan:New York Area Drosophila Discussion Group
Fruit flies. To all the naysayers that say the fruit fly is a mere nuisance, I say harumph. The fruit fly is the reason that we know about chromosomes and other mainstays of modern genetics. All of genetics is not based on a simple Punnitt square. This Thursday, fruit fly scientists from all over the city will be at the New York Academy of Science to present their newest discoveries about this little bugger.
Thursday, Jan. 8 at 6pm
NYAS
250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor
What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters
As much as I love fruit flies, I will be heading to this event because Donald Prothero will be speaking there. Prothero taught my paleontology class in college, and his lectures were colorful - almost as colorful as the fossil-themed t-shirts he wore to each lecture. He will be talking about how fossils provide some of the best evidence for evolution and about recent discoveries of fossils that represent invertebrate transitions and the link between apes and humans. Maybe he'll wear his trilobite tee, too.
Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 6:30pm
AMNH, Linder Theater
81st Street and Central Park West
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