We are celebrating the 5th conference of the Darwin Day in Iran. The presentations are both in Persian and English and we are glad to have distinguished speakers from Iran and around the world. The following is the schedule of our Darwin Day:
Monday Feb 12
19:00 to 19:10 Opening (in Persian), M. Reza Memar-Sadeghi, Kargadan Publications
19:10 to 19:30 “The Origin of The Descent of Man” (in Persian), Arash Raeisbahrami, independent researcher
19:30 to 19:50 “A Historical Review of the Sci-Rel Relation: Human Evolution” (in Persian), Amir-Mohammad Gamini, University of Tehran
19:50 to 20:10 “Historical Study of Human Evolution in Iranian Textbooks” (in Persian), Mohammad Masumi, independent researcher of history and philosophy of science.
20:10 to 20:30 “Darwin’s Mistakes” (in Persian) , Hamed Vahdatinasab, Tarbiat Modares University
20:30 to 21:00 “Charles Darwin and Human Evolution”, Donald Johanson, Arizona State University
Tuesday Feb 13
19:00 to 19:20 “Human Evolution from a Genomic Perspective” (in Persian), Jalal Soltani, Bu-Ali Sina University
19:20 to 19:40 “Biological Evolution and the Symbolic Register: intersectionality of genes and language”, Mehrdad Arabestani, University of Tehran
19:40 to 20:10 “Insights into Human Evolution from Archaic Genomes”, Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute
20:10 to 20:40 “Relatives and Ancestors”, Bernard Wood, George Washington University
20:40 to 21:10 “The Evolution of Human Behavior: 21st Century Perspectives from Chimpanzees.”, Craig Stanford, University of Southern California
Wednesday Feb 14
19:00 to 19:20 “Brain and Consciousness in terms of Neuroevolutionary Mythology” (in Persian), Abdorreza Naser Moghadasi, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
19:20 to 19:50 “The Evidence and Polemic of Hominine Origins”, David Begun, University of Toronto
19:50 to 20:20 “How did humans evolve? All species are different, we are as well. My question is about what we can learn if we ask “why””, Milford Wolpoff, University of Michigan
20:20 to 20:50 “Human Evolution and Human Races”, Alan Templeton, Washington University
20:50 to 21:10 “Evolutionary Views in Anthropology and Archeology” (in Persian) , Kamyar Abdi, Shahid Beheshti University
*All times are Tehran Time (GMT+3:30).