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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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Schedule

8:30 am
REGISTRATION
9:30 am

WELCOME
Provost Robert McGrath
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
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
5:15 pm
SPEAKERS RECEPTION