Thursday, May 28, 2009

8:45   Opening Remarks

9:00 Ozzie Pearson and Timothy E. Hanso

Development and assessment of Bayesian discriminant analysis for multivariate data with missing values

9:30  Tim Weaver

Was modern human origins a short-term event or a lengthy process?

10:00 Antonio Rosas and Markus Bastir

The origin of the modern human face

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Philipp Gunz, Fred Bookstein, Andrea Stadlmayr, Philipp Mitteroecker and Gerhard Weber

The origins of modern human diversity

11:15 Emiliano Bruner

The endocranial changes of the parietal areas before and after the modern human transition, and the evolution of the fronto-parietal system

11:45 Jean-Jacques Hublin

Modern human origins in North Africa

12:15 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

Laboratory sessions (restricted to registered EVAN fellows)

14:00-15:00: Paleoanthropology lab (Katerina Harvati)

15:00-16:00: Postcranial histology lab (Heike Scherf)

9:00  Richard E. Green, Johannes Krause, Adrian W. Briggs, Tomislav  Maricic, Udo Stenzel, Kay Prüfer, Janet Kelso, and Svante Pääbo

Understanding recent human evolution via the Neandertal genome

9:30 Maria Martinon-Torres, Aida Gómez-Robles, José Mª Bermúdez de Castro, Leyre Prado Simón

Intra and interspecific variation of dental morphology. A quantitative approach to Neandertal and modern humans divergence

10:00 Giorgio Manzi, Francesca Ricci & Fabio Di Vincenzo

“God reveals himself in the slight details”: cranial epigenetic traits, Neanderthals, and modern human origin in an evo-devo perspective

10:30 Coffee break

10: 45 Sarah Freidline, Philipp Gunz, Katerina Harvati, Ivor Jankovic, Jean-Jacques Hublin

3D landmark and semilandmark geometric morphometric analysis of the Zuttiyeh fronto-zygomatic fragment

11: 15 Katerina Harvati and Fred Grine

The Hofmeyr cranium in the context of Late Pleistocene European and African populations

11:45 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Chris Henshilwood (Institute Seminar)

         Tracing behavioural modernity in southern Africa: the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort

Laboratory sessions (restricted to registered EVAN fellows)

15:30-16:30: Ancient DNA lab (Tomislav Maricic)