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University of Utah Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Henry Harpending will present the lecture "Recent Rapid Human Evolution: Some Implications for the Humanities and Sciences" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 in the 海角社区 College of Education Auditorium. 

Harpending is author of three books and more than 100 refereed publications. He is a world leader in the science of anthropological genetics, human demography and human evolutionary biology.

His most recent book is "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution" co-authored with G. Cochran and published by Basic Books in 2009.

This lecture is sponsored by the Idaho Museum of Natural History, the 海角社区 Chapter of Sigma Xi, the College of Arts and Letters Cultural Events Committee, 海角社区 Office of Research, and the Department of Anthropology. Harpending鈥檚 lecture and several other 海角社区 activities are being presented in honor of Darwin Day on Feb. 12

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