When:
Saturday, January 10, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: Norris University Center, 2-160, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Joan West
(847) 491-3645
joan.west@northwestern.edu
Group: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Category: Lectures & Meetings
"Life on Earth from it's Origin to Present Day"
Today, it's easy to take the sheer diversity of life on Earth for granted and view it as an inevitable outcome of physical laws---but is it? We will explore this question by tracing an abridged history of life from the primordial chemical and physical processes believed to start it, to the key steppingstones in complex evolution, to the events that led to modern humans.
Thomas Wytock, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University