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Evolution@Vanderbilt

Earth Day Lectures

Our next Earth Day seminar will be on April 15, 2026. Greg Wilson Mantilla will be joining us from the University of Washington.

Greg Wilson Mantilla, wearing a plaid shirt, black bucket hat, and glasses, kneels beside a plaster-jacketed fossil at a red dirt excavation site. He holds a rock or possible fossil in one hand while looking toward the camera. Bags of supplies and excavation tools are visible in the background.

Find a table of previous Earth Day Seminars here:

SpeakerInstitutionDateTopicMedia
Paul KochUniversity of California, Santa Cruz2025 04/16Evolutionary Changes through the Lens of PaleontologyPress Release
Sharon StraussUniversity of California, Davis2024 04/17Evolution and plasticity of the niche, with implications for species coexistencePress Release
Graham SlaterUniversity of Chicago2023 04/19Predicting multivariate ecology of fossil taxa from morphological dataPress Release
Toby KiersVrije Universiteit2022 04/20Underground economics: Quantifying trade in plant-fungal networksPress Release
Carlos NobreUniversity of Sao Paulo2021 04/21The Amazon near a Tipping Point. The Urgent Need for a Novel Standing Forest BioeconomyPress Release