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The Africa Genome Education Institute is dedicated to the public discussion of genetics and biotechnology in Africa. We seek to share, discuss, and disseminate information about genetics and biotechnology as it impacts upon the continent. The Teaching Biology Project is a program of the AGEI.

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Cape Town Book Fair

You are invited to join Wilmot James to celebrate the publication of his new book, "Nature's Gifts: Why we are the way we are".  Dr Mamphela Ramphele will be the guest speaker.

DALRO Forum, CTICC, Cape Town, Sunday, 1 August 2010 at 4 pm.

Contact us for details or view the Events Schedule.

Darwin Trail

Darwin TrailThe Darwin Trail Map was launched officially on Sunday, 27 September 2009.

The map was presented to ten schools, using Interactive Telematic Technology through Stellenbosch University, a virtual teaching system which beams lessons out to learners through satellite broadcasting. We are very grateful to the Western Cape Education Department and the Stellenbosch University for allowing us to use lesson time to present this valuable resource.

Click here to see the map.
The Human Journey Out Of Africa: A Perspective From Language Studies
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Monday, 08 March 2010 09:21

H. Ekkehard Wolff, University of Leipzig: Chair of African Languages & Linguistics will deliver a FREE Darwin lecture on ‘The Human Journey out of Africa – a perspective from language studies’   on Thursday March 11, 2010.

This lecture takes issue with the ‘Out-of-Africa’ theory of the origin of MODERN (WO)MAN from a linguistic point of view by raising questions which ‘serious’ (mainstream) linguistics has always avoided to address, largely because they exceed the reach of established methods of historical-comparative linguistics. Based on combined recent evidence from climatology, archeology, paleoanthropology, biology (human genetics) challenging food for thought may eventually lead to revisions of ‘received wisdom’ among contemporary linguists. The lecture will raise a number of far-reaching questions from a linguistic vantage point without, however, being able to provide any final answers which, rather, still await focused interdisciplinary research involving Human Genetics as much as Linguistics, among others.

The Darwin series is a project of the AGEI in partnership with the Department of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town and funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy.

  • Date: Thursday 11 March
  • Time: 5:30pm for 6:00pm
  • Venue: New Learning Centre, Health Sciences Campus, University of Cape Town, Medical Faculty, Anzio Road, Observatory.
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The DNA sequencing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Friday, 19 February 2010 08:00

"To the growing list of people with fully sequenced genomes, two memorable names have now been added: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African civilrights activist, and !Gubi, a Namibian hunter-gatherer," reads the first lines of an article in the 18 February edition of Nature.

Please download the article and the scientific paper on which it is based.
 
Darwin Lecture: Why human skin comes in colors
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 20:10

9th March 2010

Anthropologist, Paleontologist and University Professor Nina Jablonski will discuss “Why human skin comes in colors”

Venue: Wallenberg Centrel, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study ( STIAS) Marais Street, Stellenbosch

Time: 6pm
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