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TBI celebrates fifty years of Zinjanthropus with symposium in NYC

2009 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus in Olduvai Gorge by Mary Leakey, and The Turkana Basin Institute marked the event with a public symposium on September ...

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Location: Charles B. Wang Center

 

8:30 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Welcome Robert McGrath
Provost, Stony Brook University
9:40 a.m. Introduction Richard Leakey
Stony Brook University
9:55 a.m. Introduction of Speakers William Jungers
Stony Brook University
10:00 a.m. "Out of Africa: Again and Again" Marta Mirazón Lahr
Cambridge University
10:30 a.m Coffee Break
10:45 a.m "African Mammals: Background to Dispersal" Meave Leakey
Stony Brook University
11:15 a.m. "The Levant: A Corridor and  a Cul-de-sac" John Shea
Stony Brook University
11:45 a.m Panel Discussion
12:30 p.m.

LUNCH

 

1:55 p.m. Introduction of Speakers
2:00 p.m. "Dmanisi and The First Hominids in Eurasia" David Lordkipanidze
Georgian State Museum
2:30 p.m.

"The Hominins of Southeast Asia: History and Controversy"

Susan Anton
New York University
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. "Earliest Hominids of China" Yamei Hou
Chinese Academy of Sciences
3:45 p.m. "The Evolution of Human Adaptability"

Richard Potts
Smithsonian Institution

4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
5:00 p.m. Reception