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FEATURING:
Dr. Matthew Shawkey
(Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Akron)
EVENT TOPIC:
Birds are among the most colorful organisms on the planet, but for years the colors of their ancestors, the dinosaurs, were limited to artists' and children's imaginations and were thought to be scientifically unknowable. The recent discovery of fossilized pigments within the feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs allows us to not only reconstruct their colors with some certainty but gives us insight into the origins of the astonishing diversity of birds today. I will discuss how my colleagues and I are using these new techniques, along with similar detailed studies of color production in modern birds, to determine what role color may have played in the deep evolutionary history of birds.
EVENT INFORMATION:
WHERE: The Market
Garden Brewery
(Located
at
1947
West
25th Street next to the West Side Market, Cleveland, Ohio)
WHEN: October 10, 2011
Drinks
at
6:30
pm,
discussion starts around 7:00 pm
WHO: Sponsored by Case Western
Reserve University chapter of Sigma Xi, WCPN
ideastream, and the Market
Garden Brewery
click here to download a pdf of the event flyer
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