How did dinosaurs grow, and how do we know?

Dr. Kevin Padian will explore dinosaur development and evolution. The reception will begin at 6:30pm with light refreshments and the talk starts at 7pm. Dr. Padian will be around to meet people and talk before the lecture begins (starting at 6:30) so please come have a cup of coffee and mingle.
Kevin Padian has been a professor of evolutionary biology and a curator in paleontology at Berkeley for over 30 years. He is interested in how big changes get started in evolution, and in the history of thought about biology and evolution. A lot of his focus is on the age of dinosaurs, how dinosaurs evolved into birds, and how major adaptations such as flight evolve. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 100 scientific articles, 100 popular articles, and seven books. For 16 years he was President of the National Center for Science Education, the pre-eminent organization that explains evolution and the nature of science to the public. In 2005 he was an expert witness in the Dover, Pennsylvania "Intelligent Design" trial. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the California Academy of Sciences; he was the recipient of the Carl Sagan Award for the Popularization of Science and was named Western Evolutionay Biologst of the Year in 2009.

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