Adapted to a Symbolic Niche: How Less became more in Human Evolution
Terrence W. Deacon delivers a lecture on the neuroscience and development of the human capacity for language and musical perception.
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Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
Jan Golinski discusses how early 19th century popular science lecturers evoked the discourse of the sublime, thereby continuing to advance Enlightenment claims about progress in human reason and culture, despite the rise of conservative Regency values.
Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
Prof. Golinski discusses the links between public science and aesthetics at the turn of the 19th century by focusing on inventor Adam Walker's device for projecting "sublime" astronomical effects on a screen.
How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution
Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. In speaking about the popularization of and attacks upon Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, he draws on his 2007 study Victorian Popularizers of Science.
Darwin and the Challenge of Biography
Janet Browne, a leading specialist on Charles Darwin and his life’s work, is the author of the multiple prize-winning, two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2002).
A Universe of One's Own: Cosmology, Theology and Atheology
Prof. Taede Smedes explores cosmology, theology and atheology in his talk as first lecturer for the Shulman Lectures at the Whitney Humanities Center.
Heaven or Heat Death? Christian and Scientific Perspectives on the End of the Universe
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, distinguished guest and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, discusses religious and scientific views of the end of the Universe at the second Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center.