Wonderful Cambrian Beasts

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

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https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/wonderful-cambrian-beasts

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Environmental Sciences,Lecture,Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Harvard
Museum of Natural History Speaker(s): <strong>Javier
Ortega-Hernández</strong> <em>Assistant Professor of Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</em> Cost: Free Ticket Web
Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1GeY6ygVTqen5DMkrimurw
Contact Info: HMSC Programs Harvard Key Required: No Link:
https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/wonderful-cambrian-beasts Earth is home
to a vast diversity of organisms that collectively define the modern
biosphere. How did this diversity come to be? Javier Ortega-Hernández
will discuss his approach to answering this question by studying
organisms that lived more than half a billion years ago in the
Cambrian Period (541-485 million years ago). By focusing on the
earliest-known animals — some of the most versatile to ever exist —
Ortega-Hernández aims to reconstruct the early evolutionary history of
major animal groups and contribute to our understanding of Earth's
biodiversity.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 18:00 to 19:00

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