Symposium Schedule
Charles B. Wang Center Theater
8:30 am |
REGISTRATION |
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| 9:30 am |
WELCOME |
9:40 am |
INTRODUCTION Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University |
9:50 am |
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS Fred Grine, Stony Brook University |
10:00 am |
HOMO HABILIS–A PREMATURE DISCOVERY: REMEMBERED BY ONE OF ITS
FOUNDING FATHERS, 42 YEARS LATER Phillip V. Tobias, University of the Witwatersrand |
10:30 am |
COFFEE BREAK
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11:00 am |
EARLY HUMANS: OF WHOM DO WE SPEAK? Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University |
| 11:35 am |
WHERE DOES THE GENUS HOMO BEGIN, AND HOW WOULD WE KNOW? Bernard Wood, George Washington University |
12:05 pm |
PANEL DISCUSSION Chris Dean, John Fleagle, Patrick Gathogo, William Jungers, William Kimbel, Marta Lahr, Philip Rightmire |
| 12:35 pm |
LUNCH |
1:55 pm |
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS Fred Grine, Stony Brook University |
2:00 pm |
LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF EARLY HOMO IN THE PALAEO-OLDUVAI BASIN Rob Blumenschine, Rutgers University |
2:35 pm |
HUMAN EVOLUTION IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? GIANT LAKES, ORBITAL FORCING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS HOMO Mark Maslin, University College London |
3:05 pm |
COFFEE BREAK |
3:35 pm |
EXPENSIVE TISSUES AND ENERGETICS, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS HOMO Leslie Aiello, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research |
4:10 pm |
BRAINS, BRAWN, AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ENDURANCE RUNNING
CAPABILITIES Dan Lieberman, Harvard University |
4:40 pm |
PANEL DISCUSSION Craig Feibel, Meave Leakey, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Kaye Reed, Hélène Roche, John Shea, Matt Sponheimer |
| 5:10 pm |
CLOSING REMARKS
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5:15 pm |
SPEAKERS RECEPTION
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