Author and animal behavior researcher Jennifer Verdolin will present the annual Darwin Day Lecture sponsored by the Department of Biology and the University Lectureship Committee on Thursday, Feb. 8 at 12 p.m. in Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Building. The event is free and open to the public.
A researcher who specializes in social and mating behavior, her talk is titled “First Comes Love, Then Comes Baby: Evolutionary Significance of Mate Choice and Parental Care.” Her first popular science book, “Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship and Mating Tell Us About Human Relationships,” tackled the wild world of romance.
Presently she has an appointment as a lecturer at the University of Redlands and as an adjunct professor at Duke University in the Biology Department.