Paul Smith

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Title	Description	People	Date
A Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to Finches	Professor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould and The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner.	Frances Ashcroft, Paul Smith	16 April, 2024
The Dodo in the Museum	Director of the Museum of Natural History, Paul Smith, gives a presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’	Paul Smith	7 December, 2015
Activist Humanities in a Global Context	Ahadf Soueif, Paul Smith and Robin Kelley discuss how the humanities can solve global challenges	Ahdaf Soueif, Paul Smith, Robin Kelley	19 March, 2014
Goldilocks and the origin of animals - insights from the far north	The Cambrian Explosion is one of the most spectacular episodes in Earth history, with the first traces of animals appearing in the fossil record at around 550 million years, and most modern major groups (phyla and classes) present by 510 Ma.	Paul Smith	10 December, 2012