Event Dime
Science Café: Follow your nose: Climate, Energetics, and Human Evolution
- When:
- May 21, 2026 · 7:00 PM
- Where:
- Downtown Raleigh, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC
- Source:
- NC Museum of Natural Sciences – Events
Join us in person or watch the livestream on YouTube. Following the journey of Homo sapiens, Dr. Alexa Kelly will explore how climate influenced human evolution in diverse and extreme environments. Her research focuses on how evolutionary pressures shaped human anatomy, from skeletal structure to physiological adaptations using human skeletal remains in digital CT scans and physically collected remains from around the world. Dr. Alexa Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the Campbell Un