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SUMMARY:Convocation: R. Dale Guthrie
DESCRIPTION:Professor emeritus at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of 
 Alaska Fairbanks, R. Dale Guthrie is a renowned paleobiologist and artist. 
 His many books and papers have covered a wide range of interests, including
  evolutionary dwarfing, social anatomy, causes of extinctions, climatic cha
 nge and human evolution. In the past few decades his lifelong hunting exper
 ience and hobbies of painting and sculpting have dovetailed with his scient
 ific interests, leading to his landmark study, The Natural History of Paleo
 lithic Art. Prior to Guthrie's book there was no widespread practice of usi
 ng information and ideas from natural history and studies of human universa
 ls in approaching the thousands of art images made by members of Eurasian I
 ce Age bands. The cave paintings and other preserved remnants of Paleolithi
 c peoples shed light on a world little known to us. With a natural historia
 n's keen eye for observation, and as one who has spent a lifetime using bon
 es and other excavated materials to piece together past human behavior and 
 environments, Guthrie demonstrates that Paleolithic art is a mode of expres
 sion we can comprehend to a remarkable degree and that the perspective of n
 atural history is integral to that comprehension. He employs a mix of ethol
 ogy, evolutionary biology, and human universals, along with innovative fore
 nsic techniques, to access these distant cultures and their art and artifac
 ts. The title of his presentation is "Evolution of Art, Morality, and Roman
 tic Love in the Ice Age Human Band."
LOCATION:Skinner Chapel
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