Science+Cafe+Improbable+Destinies+with+Prof.+Losos

== On December 14th, I went to the Science Cafe to watch a presentation/lecture by Jonathan B. Losos, a professor at Harvard University. Professor Losos is also an evolutionary biologist who wrote the book “Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution." Professor Losos mainly spoke about the concept of evolution, and about the many possibilities of change we would see in the world today if events in the past were different. He talked a lot about divergent and convergent evolution using examples for both. When explaining evolution he used the movies Jurassic Park and The Good Dinosaur as examples to support his information of how things would be drastically different if dinosaurs continued living with humans.

This is related to environmental science because the information within the lecture on convergent and divergent evolution are expanded from what we have learned in class. We have also learned about the important factors in the environment, like the predator and prey, and resources. In APES and in this presentation, we learned about isolationism and its effect on the environment.