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| Hoboken Lecture 2012 photography |
Title : Hoboken Lecture 2012 photography
Duration : 04:02
Channel : NMRdam
Label : Rotterdam, Richard Fortey, Het Natuurhistorisch
Duration : 04:02
Channel : NMRdam
Label : Rotterdam, Richard Fortey, Het Natuurhistorisch
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| Hoboken Lecture 2012 photography |
Patterns in the history of life Professor Richard Fortey Wednesday 4 April 2012, 18.00 - 20.00 The Natural History Museum Rotterdam, the British Council and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) announce the second Hoboken Lecture, titled Patterns in the history of life by the internationally renowned palaeontologist Richard Fortey. Q&A moderated by Maarten Keulemans, science editor de Volkskrant. Musical interlude (Haydn) by Codarts students. Drinks and book signing afterwards. About the speaker - Richard Fortey (1946) is a palaeontologist and one of the world authorities on trilobites - extinct arthropods that were once a dominant life form. For most of his working life he was employed in the Natural History Museum in London. He is known equally for his science writing, which combines personal observation and poetic prose with the latest scientific research. Of his six books, Life: an unauthorised biography (1996) has been translated into twelve languages. About the lecture - Based on decades of research in the fossil collections of The Natural History Museum in London and by exploring the paleontological literature, professor Richard Fortey will speak about the history of life in all its diversity, from the 'Cambrian explosion', the transition of vertebrates from water to land, the origin of birds and the colonisation of the skies, to human origins and the inferred rise of consciousness.
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