May Berenbaum, professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Neil L. Shubin, provost of academic affairs at the Field Museum and associate dean of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, will consider the alarmingly increased rate of extinctions among many global species.
This event is co-sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago.
For more information contact the Chicago Humanities Festival at 312-661-1028.