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David Lahti

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David C. Lahti is an Associate Professor of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York, where he runs a Behavior & Evolution laboratory focusing mainly on learned behavior in birds and humans. Prof. Lahti received a BS in biology and history from Gordon College. He received a PhD in moral philosophy and the philosophy of biology at the Whitefield Institute, Oxford, for a study of the contributions science can and cannot make to an understanding of the foundations of morality. He then received a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan for a study of rapid evolution in an introduced bird. He has been a Darwin Fellow at the University of Massachusetts and a Kirschstein NRSA Research Fellow with the National Institutes of Health, where he studied the development and evolution of bird song. His current research projects include rapid trait evolution following species introduction, cultural evolution in humans and animals, and the evolution of our capacity for morality and religion

David Lahti

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01/06

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    • Featuring guests Cara Wall-Scheffler, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Jeffrey Schloss, 
    • Helen De Cruz 
    • and Sarah Brosnan 

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    Part Three in the Uniquely unique mini-series. We look to morality, language, and culture, and start to see that our species is quite an outlier.

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    • Featuring guests David Lahti, 
    • Jeffrey Schloss, 
    • Andrew Torrance 
    • and Helen De Cruz 

    Uniquely Unique | What Does It Mean To Be Human?

    Part One in a six-part mini-series exploring what it means to be human.

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    Podcast Episode
    Featuring guest David Lahti 

    David Lahti | Nature, Culture & Evolution

    Jim and David talk about cultural evolution and how the ideas interplay with the current landscape of faith and science in the United States.

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    • Featuring guests Han-Luen Kantzer Komline, 
    • Andrew Torrance, 
    • Steven Bouma-Prediger, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Alister McGrath 
    • and Helen De Cruz 

    Uniquely Unique | Image of God

    Part Six in the Uniquely Unique mini-series. We take stock of one more distinguishing feature of humans—the image of God.

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests Georgia M. Dunston, 
    • Steven Bouma-Prediger, 
    • Joseph L. Graves, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Alister McGrath 
    • and Luke Bretherton 

    Uniquely Unique | Our Sad History

    Part Five in the Uniquely unique mini-series. In the long history of searching for what makes humans special we have repeatedly caused great harm to our neighbors, both human and non-human.

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests David Lahti, 
    • Mike McHargue, 
    • Luke Bretherton, 
    • Rosalind Picard 
    • and Amy Crouch 

    Uniquely Unique | Technology

    Part Four in the Uniquely unique mini-series. We explore our use of technology starting with the simplest tools up to the recent advances in artificial intelligence to see what role it has had in our human identity

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests Cara Wall-Scheffler, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Jeffrey Schloss, 
    • Helen De Cruz 
    • and Sarah Brosnan 

    Uniquely Unique | Morality, Language, Culture

    Part Three in the Uniquely unique mini-series. We look to morality, language, and culture, and start to see that our species is quite an outlier.

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests David Lahti, 
    • Jeffrey Schloss, 
    • Andrew Torrance 
    • and Helen De Cruz 

    Uniquely Unique | What Does It Mean To Be Human?

    Part One in a six-part mini-series exploring what it means to be human.

  • yellow bird on branch singing
    Podcast Episode
    Featuring guest David Lahti 

    David Lahti | Nature, Culture & Evolution

    Jim and David talk about cultural evolution and how the ideas interplay with the current landscape of faith and science in the United States.

  • Cross in front of blue sky
    Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests Han-Luen Kantzer Komline, 
    • Andrew Torrance, 
    • Steven Bouma-Prediger, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Alister McGrath 
    • and Helen De Cruz 

    Uniquely Unique | Image of God

    Part Six in the Uniquely Unique mini-series. We take stock of one more distinguishing feature of humans—the image of God.

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    • Featuring guests Georgia M. Dunston, 
    • Steven Bouma-Prediger, 
    • Joseph L. Graves, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Alister McGrath 
    • and Luke Bretherton 

    Uniquely Unique | Our Sad History

    Part Five in the Uniquely unique mini-series. In the long history of searching for what makes humans special we have repeatedly caused great harm to our neighbors, both human and non-human.

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests David Lahti, 
    • Mike McHargue, 
    • Luke Bretherton, 
    • Rosalind Picard 
    • and Amy Crouch 

    Uniquely Unique | Technology

    Part Four in the Uniquely unique mini-series. We explore our use of technology starting with the simplest tools up to the recent advances in artificial intelligence to see what role it has had in our human identity

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests Cara Wall-Scheffler, 
    • David Lahti, 
    • Jeffrey Schloss, 
    • Helen De Cruz 
    • and Sarah Brosnan 

    Uniquely Unique | Morality, Language, Culture

    Part Three in the Uniquely unique mini-series. We look to morality, language, and culture, and start to see that our species is quite an outlier.

  • Podcast Episode
    • Featuring guests David Lahti, 
    • Jeffrey Schloss, 
    • Andrew Torrance 
    • and Helen De Cruz 

    Uniquely Unique | What Does It Mean To Be Human?

    Part One in a six-part mini-series exploring what it means to be human.

  • yellow bird on branch singing
    Podcast Episode
    Featuring guest David Lahti 

    David Lahti | Nature, Culture & Evolution

    Jim and David talk about cultural evolution and how the ideas interplay with the current landscape of faith and science in the United States.

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