Jenny Graves

Thinker-in-Residence · University of Canberra · company speakers →

Evolutionary geneticist and choral singer. She has spent the past 60 years studying the wonders of evolution. She penned a secular retelling of our origin story — drawing from scientific discoveries in cosmology, molecular biology, evolutionary genetics, ecology and anthropology — and teamed up with a poet and a composer to bring the 110-minute choral work to fruition. The piece, Origins of the Universe, of Life, of Species, of Humanity, is bold, compelling and funny. She studied genetics at the University of Adelaide, won a Fulbright grant to get her PhD at Berkeley. She was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1999. She founded the comparative genomics department at Australian National University. She predicted that the human Y chromosome was shrinking and would disappear in about 4 million to 5 million years. She was named a Thinker-in-Residence at the University of Canberra.

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