Free Virtual Lecture - What Spiders Have to Say

30 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA

Description

Consider the spider: eight legs, eight eyes, and a brain the size of a poppy seed. These are some of nature’s most amazing and charismatic creatures, and yet we know so little about their worlds. Paul Shamble will discuss the lives, habits, and marvelous morphologies of these animals—from sensory structures and cognition to locomotion and behavior. Understanding these creatures helps us better understand evolution and diversity—and leads us to ask what it means that even tiny animals inhabit complex lives. Paul Shamble, John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow, Harvard University Evolution Matters Lecture Series Series supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] (617) 496-1638 Price: Free Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM