2009 Conference
2008 Conference
- 2008 Nobel Conference: Who Were the First Humans?
- 2008 Presenters: List of presenters with biographies
- Feature Article: A Magical 'Paleo' Mystery Tour
- Related Articles: Supplemental resources and articles
- Nobel Conference Preview
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2008 Presenters
Robin I. M. Dunbar (watch presentation)
“Mind the Gap: Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes”
Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology; Director, Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Co-Director of the British Academy’s Centenary Research Project, Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain, a multidisciplinary project involving several universities, studying how the human brain evolved and the role language played.
Marcus W. Feldman (watch presentation)
“The History of Migration and Selection Seen through the Human Genome”
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Director, Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies; Wohlford Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (watch presentation)
“Human Origins and Religious Awareness — An Interdisciplinary Challenge for Theology?”
James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science, Princeton Theological Seminary
Curtis Marean (watch presentation)
“The African Evidence for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior”
Paleoanthropologist; Professor, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University at Tempe
Svante Pääbo (watch presentation)
“A Neandertal View of Human Origins”
Molecular Biologist; Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Dennis J. Stanford (watch presentation)
“The Ice-Age Discovery of the America: Constructing an Iberian Solution”
Head of the Archaeology Division, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
