"Building Aliens"Lecture with PZ Myers

"Building Aliens" with Dr. P.Z. Myers

Thursday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.

TELUS Spark in the Feature Gallery

220 St. Georges Drive

Presented by the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

Free lecture, but we advise reserving tickets in advance on-line at http://www.sparkscien... (http://www.sparkscience.ca/pzmyers) Click on Register Now.

What can we expect aliens on other worlds to look like? Some scientists argue that evolution will inevitably produce forms of life we'd find familiar – so maybe we'd see humanoid aliens, as in popular science fiction movies and TV shows. Another perspective – and one Dr. Myers will be taking – is that evolution has so many possible solutions that we ought to expect aliens to be wildly different than Hollywood's depictions and, well, alien.

Dr. Myers will discuss why life's solutions are not inevitable, but dependent on many unpredictable factors.

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Dr. P.Z. Myers is Associate Professor of Biology at University of Minnesota Morris. He is well known in evolutionary biology for his popular and often controversial blog, Pharyngula. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on skeptical science, often sharing the stage with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, Eugenie Scott, and other popular scientists in the field of evolutionary biology, physics and cosmology.

His free lecture is a presentation of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, as their annual Peter Sim Memorial Lecture, dedicated to the memory of Centre member and local science popularizer Peter Sim.

Dr. Myers's talk is open to all but is recommended for ages 14 and up.