What Spiders Have to Say

Consider the spider: eight legs, eight eyes and a brain the size of a poppy seed. These are some of nature’s most amazing and charismatic creatures, yet humans know so little about their worlds. On Wednesday, April 28, Paul Shamble, a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow at Harvard University, will discuss the lives, habits plus marvelous morphologies of these animals—from sensory structures and cognition to locomotion and behavior. Understanding these creatures helps better understand evolution as well as diversity—and poses the question of what it means that even tiny animals inhabit complex lives. This free, virtual lecture is a part of the Evolution Matters lecture series which is supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit. "What Spiders Have to Say" is presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.