Beauty of animals - evolution of biological aesthetics
VHS@home on 10 March, 7.30 to 9 p.m.
The Chemnitz Adult Education Centre invites you to a lecture with Nobel Prize winner and biologist Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard on Wednesday, 10 March, from 7.30 to 9 pm. (The online lecture, which was cancelled at short notice at the beginning of February, will now be rescheduled).
Participation is free of charge. Anyone interested can register by midnight on 9 March at www.vhs-chemnitz.de and will receive an access link by email.
Under the title "Beauty of Animals - Evolution of Biological Aesthetics", Prof Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard will talk about so-called natural "standards of beauty", which are the result and motor of bisexual reproduction. But how do colours and patterns develop on the surface of the body? Physical signals - colours, sounds, smells - also have a broader communicative function in the interspecific coexistence of animal and plant species. Only recently has it been possible to decipher the molecular genetic mechanisms that lead to colour production and distribution.
Prof Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen and has been Chancellor of the Order Pour le Mérite since 2013. She has received numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in 1995, for her discoveries of genes that control the development of animals and humans, as well as for the detection of shape-forming gradients in fly embryos.
This event is part of the series "vhs.wissen live - the digital science programme" as a cooperation between the VHS Chemnitz and the adult education centres in the Erding and SüdOst districts of Munich as well as the Max Planck Society.