LEARNING CENTER
This selection of online articles, videos, and other multi-media resources, invites scientists and non-scientists alike to explore the latest discoveries about DNA and genetics, brain function and development, and human evolution.
Brain Science
Harvard Braintour, a showcase of people, technologies and ideas.
Fundamentals of Neuroscience, a Harvard EdX online course.
Harvard Neuroblog, offers insights and observations by graduate students and postdocs working on basic research in the neurosciences at Harvard University.
HHMI Neuroscience Collection, part of the Biointeractive site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a rich multimedia learning resource.
Knowing Neurons, a creative neuroscience education website by young neuroscientists.
Genetics & Evolution
Who We Are and How We Got Here
“For me it was especially important to highlight some of the positive messages that were coming from this work: that much of what we thought we knew about the past is wrong, that we are all mixed, that no one is or could be ‘pure’, and that we are all connected in myriad ways never before imagined.” – David Reich
Towards a New History and Geography of Human Genes informed by Ancient DNA, a lecture by David Reich, Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics 53 minutes (2015).
Bones, Stones, and Genes: The Origins of Modern Humans, part of the Biointeractive site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a rich multimedia learning resource.
Sizing up the Brain, Gene By Gene, a one-hour lecture by Christopher Walsh, MD PhD, Chief, Division of Genetics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor, Harvard Medical School.
Becoming Human, is an interactive web resource created and maintained by the Institute of Human Origins, to promote greater understanding about the course of human evolution.
Evolution Lab — PBS’s “Nova Labs” site features videos, games and other learning resources about Evolution.
Selected Articles
“David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone”
Profiles in Science, NY Times, March 30, 2018
“Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t.”
featuring Walsh lab, Carl Zimmer, NY Times, May 21, 2018
How Our Ancient Origins Are Guiding Modern Medicine
Online “Nova Next” on PBS article by Alex Riley, July 2017
Total Number of Neurons, Not Enlarged Prefrontal Region, the Hallmark of the Human Brain
Neuroscience News, August 11, 2016
Interbreeding With Neanderthals
Telltale evidence of ancient liaisons with Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives can be found in the DNA of billions of people. By Carl Zimmer|Monday, March 04, 2013, Discover, March 2013
