Tag: Elisabeth Werby

  • Nation & World

    Horns aplenty

    A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History highlights the enormous diversity of antlers and horns and examines how they came into being and what they’re used for.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hey squash, time for your close-up

    Bruce Smith, of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, discusses the rise of agriculture in a talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where the wild things are

    An exhibit of photos by photographer Amy Stein at the Harvard Museum of Natural History explores the boundaries between humankind and nature.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Forests focus of gift

    Paul Zofnass ’69, M.B.A. ’73, has become the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s (HMNH) largest donor since its founding in 1998.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Culture skews human evolution

    The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an era where culture encourages habits unhealthy for us and for the world around, with uncertain evolutionary outcomes.

    4 minutes