The UCSD Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans is a broad-based multidisciplinary
coalition of individuals interested in defining and explaining the evolutionary origins of humans
and in generating testable hypotheses and new agendas for research regarding this matter. The group
engages in interactive discussions in a variety of formats. Areas of current interest include
primate genetics and evolution, paleoanthropology and hominid origins, mammalian and primate
neurosciences, primate biology and medicine, the roles of nature and nurture in language and
cognition, human and primate society and culture, comparative primate reproductive biology,
geographic, environmental and climatic factors in hominid evolution, as well as general theories
for explaining humans. The current membership of the group is listed below.
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