The ALLELE series continues Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium room 127. Mike Antolin, professor and chair of the biology department at Colorado State University, will discuss the impacts of evolution on public health and medicine in a lecture titled, “What Doctors Need to Know About Evolution.”

“The ALLELE lecture series is to help the university community and the public in general understand the importance of evolutionary thought processes, to how our society works and its relevance to their day-to-day lives,” said Laura Reed, a UA biology professor.

The lectures are organized by the Evolution Working Group, a group of faculty and students from different departments across campus, as well as from the Alabama State Geological Survey.

The final two ALLELE Lectures will take place March 5 with Rebecca Burch speaking on “Semen Chemistry: Implications, Innovations, and Controversy” and April 23 with Sean Carroll speaking on “Brave Genius: A Scientists’ Journey from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize.”

Compiled by Alana Norris