Dear all, Due to the need to order food ahead of time for dinner (we plan to have tamales, salad, cookies, and drinks), please RSVP as soon as you can. Today if possible, by tomorrow at the latest. Sorry for the initial late announcement.
What follows is the original announcement. Thanks, Joel ------------------ 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." -------------- 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] 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
