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Prof. Peter Huybers of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University will present a lecture in the EAPS IAP Lecture Series on Climate Effects on Human Evolution and Human Impacts on Climate Change. During 2009 there will be the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences is presenting a series of topics that will include Plio-Pliocene climate change and human evolution, as well as geological/geochemical records of human impacts on climate change, human evolution in the environmental and ecological context. This series is designed to complement the program offered January 22-24 by the 2009 MIT Darwin Bicentennial Symposium.