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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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Events take place in the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University Campus
  
8:00 am
REGISTRATION
9:00 am

WELCOME
President Shirley Strum Kenny, Stony Brook University

9:10 am
INTRODUCTION
Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University
9:25 am
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS
John Fleagle, Stony Brook University
9:30 am

WHO IS AUSTRALOPITHECUS?
Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University

10:00 am
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 am
LINEAGES IN AUSTRALOPITHECUS
William Kimbel, Arizona State University
11:00 am
AUSTRALOPITHECUS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Ronald Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand
11:30 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Panelists: Frederick Grine, Andrew Herries, Charles Lockwood, Zeresenay Alemseged, Francis Kirera, David Strait, Carol Ward, Susan Larson

12:15 pm
LUNCH
1:40 pm
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS
Kaye Reed, Arizona State University
1:45 pm

KENYANTHROPUS AND EARLY HOMINID DIVERSITY
Meave Leakey, Stony Brook University

2:15 pm

THE DIET OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS
Matt Sponheimer, University of Colorado at Boulder

2:45 pm
COFFEE BREAK
3:15 pm

DIVERSITY IN AUSTRALOPITHECUS: THE ROLE OF ECOLOGY
Kaye Reed, Arizona State University

3:45 pm

WALKING WITH AUSTRALOPITHECUS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PAST
Jack Stern, Stony Brook University

4:15 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Panelists: Francis Brown, Anna Kay Behrensmeyer, Elizabeth Harmon, Gary Schwartz, Fredrick Manthi, Adam Gordon, William Jungers, Terry Harrison

5:00 pm
SPEAKERS' RECEPTION
6:00 pm
END OF SYMPOSIUM