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Public Lecture: Tracing 100,000 years of human history with DNA

6pm 9 February, 2009

Melbourne Convention Centre
(Corner of Spencer and Flinders Streets)
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Speaker: Professor Marcus W. Feldman 
Professor of Biology 
Stanford University

New technologies have produced a vast amount of information on how the human genome varies around the world.  This information can be used to illustrate the evolutionary history of modern humans over the past 100,000 years, the biological relevance of race, and how natural selection might have acted to produce today's patterns of worldwide genomic variation.

Admission: Free

If you are attending this lecture, you may also wish to attend the 8pm public lecture by Professor Steve Jones:

Is Human Evolution Over?

Marcus W. Feldman is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University.

 

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The Melbourne Convention Centre is located on the corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets. The Melbourne Convention Centre is a short walk from Southern Cross Station or you can take tram numbers 96, 109 or 112. Click here for a printable map.

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