Dear all,
The first 2010 meeting of the Bay Area Biosystematists will take place Tuesday
evening, January 19th at the Carnegie Institution for Science on the campus of
Stanford University. The street address is 260 Panama St. This webpage has a
helpful map: http://carnegiedpb.stanford.edu/content/directions
There will be a panel discussion on the biology and philosophy of race in
humans. We have two exciting talks lined up:
Quayshawn Spencer of the Philosophy Department of the University of San Francisco
(currently visiting at M.I.T.) will present on "A New Approach for Evaluating
Scientific Classification and an Application to Cladistic Race Theory"
Pete Richerson of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis will
speak on "Race versus ethnicity". Here is a short description:
Most neighboring populations of humans are very closely related genetically because
neighboring groups usually intermarry at appreciable rates. Cultural differences, by
contrast, arise quickly and are maintained even in the face of substantial migration by
cultural-evolutionary mechanisms that I will describe. Biosystematists might think of
humans as a vast adaptive radiation maintained by cultural "pseudo-speciation."
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Dinner and social hour begins at 5:30 pm. Evening presentations begin at 7:00.
*Please RSVP for dinner or talks *****
Please rsvp to Joel Velasco, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> There is some parking directly at the
Institute and there is a close ground lot on the other side of Panama
St. just off of campus drive and many larger lots on the other side of
campus drive between welch road and stock farm. Unless spots
specifically say otherwise (like handicapped), all parking spots such as
those marked "A permits" or "C permits" and parking meters are not
enforced after 4:00 pm. Here is a general stanford parking map that may
be of some help: http://transportation.stanford.edu/pdf/parking-map.pdf
The Carnegie Institution is in grid F/G4. There is a main entrance
directly in front of the parking lot in front of the building. The
talks will be in the seminar room/building which is to the left of the
main building. You can call my cell phone at 770-403-4363 if you need
help finding it or are lost.
See you all there,
Joel
