Organised by Professor Alan Walker FRS and Professor Christopher Stringer FRS
Please find below MP3 audio files recorded at this discussion meeting for the following talks and discussions. View further details of this meeting, including abstracts.
Session 1 New discoveries from Africa
Introductions from Stephen Cox CVO, Royal Society, and from Professor Christopher Stringer FRS
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In search of the last common ancestor: new findings on wild chimpanzees
William C. McGrew, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
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In Sahelian Africa (Chad) two new Mio-Pliocene Hominids enlighten 1871 Charles Darwin prediction
Michel Brunet, Institut International de Paléoprimatologie et Paléontologie Humaine: Evolution & Paléoenvironnements, Université de Poitiers and Collège de France, France
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Evolutionary Tempo and Mode of Early Australopithecus: Insights from New Fossil Evidence
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Physical Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, USA
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Australopithecus afarensis and the Mosaic Evolution of the Hominin Cranial Base
William H. Kimbel, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, USA
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Session 2 New discoveries from Africa and their calibration
Ardipithecus
Tim White, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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A skeleton of Australopithecus and the two Australopithecus species of Sterkfontein
Cinzia Fornai on behalf of Ron Clarke, Institute for Human Evolution & School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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The vertebral formula of the last common ancestor of humans and apes: A key to understanding human origins.
C. Owen Lovejoy, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, USA
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Session 2 extended discussion session
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Session 3 Life history and behaviour of early hominins
Arborealism, terrestrialism and bipedalism
Robin Crompton, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, UK
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Retrieving chronological age from dental remains of early fossil hominins
M. Christopher Dean, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
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Implications of isotopic dietary and life history information archived in fossil hominin teeth
Julia Lee-Thorp, Department of Archaeology, University of Bradford, UK
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Molar microwear textures of Australopithecus anamensis and A. afarensis
Peter Ungar, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, USA
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Session 4 Life history and behaviour of early hominins
Times and time ratios of great ape evolutionary branchings from molecular data
Sudhir Kumar, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA
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Hominin diversity in the middle Pliocene of eastern Africa: the maxilla of KNM-WT 40,000
Fred Spoor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
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Sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis
Phil Reno, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
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Anterior dental evolution in the Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage
Carol Ward, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, USA
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