Wednesday 27 January 2027 Meeting starts promptly at 2:30pm, doors open 2pm.
From Primordial Soup to Primates in Suits: the evolution of all life on Earth.
Life evolved more than 3.5 billion years ago, and today humans share the planet with around 12 million other species. The speaker has set himself the difficult challenge of telling the story of the evolution of all life on earth in 1 hour. Can he explain the origins of life in the oceans, the evolution of millions of species, the extinction of millions more, and the rise to dominance of Homo sapiens, in just 60 minutes? No he can’t but it’s still a good talk.
Speaker: Dr David Jones works at the Natural History Museum in London, and lectures at Imperial College. He is an entomologist specialising in rainforest insects and soil ecology. He has done fieldwork in 18 countries, and has published 56 research articles in scientific books and journals.
