Welcome to the ALLELE (ALabama LEctures on Life's Evolution) seminar series. The series organizing committee, the Evolution Working Group, is pleased to present the 15th series of lectures on evolution. The lectures are designed for a non-specialist audience and are free and open to the public.

2023-2024 Talks

October 5, 2023
Daniel Odess
​"Tracks in the Sand: White Sands National Park and the Peopling of the Americas"

7:30 PM, 2005 North Lawn Hall
Contact Harold Stowell (hstowell@ua.edu) for details

2022-2023 Talks

October 13, 2022
Elliott Sober
​"Darwin and
Intelligent Design"
7:30 pm, 125 Ten Hoor Hall

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and part of the "Philosophy Today" seminar series
March 23, 2023
Richard Richards
​​"The Evolution of Art"
7:30 pm, 1000 North Lawn Hall
*RESCHEDULED TO FALL 2023*
March 30, 2023
Daniel Odess
​"Tracks in the Sand: White Sands National Park and the Peopling of the Americas"
Contact Harold Stowell (hstowell@ua.edu) for details
April 6, 2023
Coren Apicella
​​"Evaluating the mechanisms that support the evolution of human cooperation: Data from current hunter-gatherers"
7:30 pm, 1000 North Lawn Hall

2021-2022 Talks

November 11, 2021
Shannon Bennett
​"The Evolution of a Pandemic: Lessons from SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viruses"
7:30 pm, 2005 North Lawn Hall
November 18, 2021
Gavin Naylor
​"Why are there so many different forms of life?"
7:30 pm, 2005 North Lawn Hall
February 3, 2022
Cara Ocobock
​"The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway”: How Reindeer Herders of Sub-Arctic Finland Bioculturally Cope with the Cold"
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