[Geoinfo] Conferencia Niles Eldgedge en la FCEN

[María Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta]

Ciclo de Conferencias Año Darwin Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Jueves 15 de Octubre, 12.30 hs., Aula 5 Pabellón II.

Darwin, Discovering the Tree of Life.

Niles Eldredge
Curator, Division of Paleontology
The American Museum of Natural History




Breve perfil del expositor

Niles Eldredge
Curator, Division of Paleontology
The American Museum of Natural History

Research Interests: Niles Eldredge has been a
paleontologist on the curatorial staff of the
American Museum of Natural History since 1969.
His specialty is the evolution of trilobites-a
group of extinct arthropods that lived between
535 and 245 million years ago. Eldredge's main
professional passion is evolution. Throughout his
career, he has used repeated patterns in the
history of life to refine ideas on how the
evolutionary process actually works. The theory
of "punctuated equilibria," developed with
Stephen Jay Gould in 1972, was an early
milestone. Eldredge went on to develop a
hierarchical vision of evolutionary and
ecological systems, and in his book The Pattern
of Evolution (1999) he unfolds a comprehensive
theory (the "sloshing bucket") that specifies in
detail how environmental change governs the
evolutionary process. Concerned with the rapid
destruction of many of the world's habitats and
species, Eldredge was Curator-in-Chief of the
American Museum's Hall of Biodiversity (May,
1998), and has written several books on the
subject-most recently (1998) Life in the Balance.
He has also combated the creationist movement
through lectures, articles and books-including
The Triumph of Evolution... And The Failure of
Creationism (2000).

An amateur jazz trumpeter and avid collector of
19th century cornets, Eldredge has turned his
evolutionary approach to cornet history-and to
the comparison of patterns and processes of
material cultural and biological evolution. A
critic of gene-centered theories of evolution,
Eldredge's Why We Do It (2004) presents an
alternative account to the gene-based notions of
"evolutionary psychology" to explain why human
beings behave as they do.

Eldredge is the Curator responsible for the
content of the major exhibition Darwin, which
opened at the American Museum of Natural History
in New York on November 19, 2005. The exhibition
travels to Boston, Toronto and Chicago before
going to the Natural History Museum in London in
time to celebrate the 200th anniversary of
Darwin's birth in 2009. His book Darwin.
Discovering the Tree of Life (2005) accompanies
the exhibition.

EDUCATION: A.B., Columbia College, New York,
June, 1965 (Summa Cum Laude); Ph.D. (Geology),
Columbia University, October 1969.

EMPLOYMENT: Assistant Curator, Department of
Invertebrate Paleontology, The American Museum of
Natural History, 1969-1974; Associate Curator,
Department of Invertebrates, 1974-1979; Curator,
l979-; Chairman, 1984-1991; Adjunct Professor of
Biology, City University of New York, 1972-;
Adjunct Assistant (1969-1974) and Associate
(1974-1981) Professor, Department of Geology,
Columbia University.

AFFILIATIONS: Trustee, Biodiversity Foundation
for Africa; Member: Paleontological Society,
Palaeontological Association, Society for the
Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic
Zoology, AAAS.

SOCIETY OFFICES: Coeditor, Systematic Zoology,
1973-1976; Councilor, Paleontological Society,
1977-1979.


Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Profesora Titular
Departamento de Ciencias Geologicas
Universidad de Buenos Aires
-- 
Este mensaje ha sido analizado por MailScanner
en busca de virus y otros contenidos peligrosos,
y se considera que está limpio.

------------ próxima parte ------------
Se ha borrado un adjunto en formato HTML...
URL: http://tango.gl.fcen.uba.ar/pipermail/geoinfo/attachments/20091013/14f9ccd4/untitled-1.htm