(Gibbons and Tattersall) Explaining Evolution: on Communicating the Origin of (Our) Species

OddTrader · May 3, 2016

Explaining Evolution:

Ann Gibbons and Ian Tattersall on Communicating the Origin of (Our) Species

Live Webcast This Wednesday, 6:30-8:00 PM EDT
journalism.nyu.edu/kc

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Why is it so hard to write about where we came from?

A century and a half after Darwin's Origin, only about 50 percent of Americans accept that humans evolved from other species. But that's only the most obvious of the many challenges involved in communicating the fast-changing science of human evolution, a subject that both enthralls and confuses mass audiences.

Please join us online via live webcast May 4 for our final Kavli Conversation of the spring, with two eminent communicators on the topic: Science magazine journalist and author Ann Gibbons and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History.

Moderated by Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal, the Kavli Conversations on Science Communication are organized by the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism and sponsored by the Kavli Foundation.

The virtual webcast starts at 6:30PM EDT at journalism.nyu.edu/kc. Please tweet your questions with the #KavliConvo hashtag.

PARTICIPANTS

ANN GIBBONS is a veteran journalist for Science magazine who focuses on evolution. Her book, The First Human, tells the story of the scientists and fossil hunters who established the evolutionary links between humans and apes. She has also taught science writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

IAN TATTERSALL is a paleoanthropologist who studies human and lemur evolution. In addition to hundreds of publications in scientific journals, he is the author of 15 books on topics ranging from the history of wine to the evolution of the human brain. He is an emeritus curator at the American Museum of Natural history.

ROBERT LEE HOTZ (moderator) is a science writer at the Wall Street Journal and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. He is the president of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which funds independent journalism projects around the world, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

ABOUT KAVLI CONVERSATIONS ON SCIENCE COMMUNICATION "Conversations" is an ongoing series of moderated discussions put on by the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at New York University. Each conversation features one journalist who covers science and a distinguished scientist. The free flowing conversation explores what their differing perspectives tell us about how science communication is changing and how we can do it better.
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achilles28 · May 3, 2016

More guesswork from self-anointed "experts" whose theories change every 2 years.

Why should we care?

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(Gibbons and Tattersall) Explaining Evolution: on Communicating the Origin of (Our) Species

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