Lab videos

Below are various video recordings which include, or were created by, lab members and are of topical interest. 

Thumbnail of poster for Why We Animals sing (white background, blue top and bottom, Brian Farrell in middle with text)

EVENT & Video: Why We Animals Sing

September 19, 2023

Wednesday, September 23, at 2pm:

"Music has long filled a uniquely important role in bridging human culture and biology, stretching back over millennia, and of course today provides respite and remedy in an increasingly stressful world. We do not sing alone...."

Join Brian as he presents Why We Animals Sing, at the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research in São Paulo, Brasil. This event is being live streamed via YouTube.

For more information and the live stream, visit...

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EVENT: Everything we touch, touches us back: Culture, Biology, and Health

May 21, 2020

 

On May 21, Brian presented "Everything we touch, touches us back: Culture, Biology, and Health." 

We are shaped by an immensely long evolutionary history living in nature as a social species, a million years of days spent with family and clan in a struggle against the weather, predators, hunger and enemies. Even our values of good and evil, including the Golden Rule, may have been shaped by how we treat others and our environment.

Medical science now shows that our attitudes and interactions touch us in ways that were once thought...

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Image of Brian D. Farrell presenting at Congreso Futuro 2018

Congreso Futuro 2018

January 20, 2018

Brian presented as part of  the panel "Las Inteligencias" at Chile's Congreso Futuro 2018. This annual event brings together great thinkers from across the globe to discuss the challengesthe world faces and how to improve the future. Live streamed on Jan 20, the video is now available on YouTube:

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Screenshot of title screen of "Assembling the tree of life" video

Assembling the Tree of Life

April 1, 2009

Labs across the MCZ contributed to the HMNH's new permanent exhibit, Evolution. Below, view the exhibit video highlighting the research at the MCZ being used to assemble an evolutionary tree of life. Brian Farrell, Whit Farnum, Jessica Rykken, and Amie Jones of the Farrell Lab are all included in this video. For more, visit the HMNH.

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