Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans


March 8-9, 2002

Lorna Moore
Overview of Minisymposium on Primate Reproductive Strategies

Terrance Deacon
"Heterochrony Heterodox: Hominid Brain Development, Metabolism, and Birth Timing."

Christopher Ruff
"Does the Hominid Bipedal Pelvis Promote or Impair Human Reproductive Success?"

L. Christie Rockwell
"Human Implantation from an Evolutionary Perspective"

Kurt Benirschke
"Evolutionary Aspect of Placentation"

Maynard Olson
"Gene Loss on the Human Lineage as a Likely Evolutionary Mechanism Underlying Much of the Phenotypic Divergence Between Humans and Chimpanzees"

Lawrence Grossman
"The Search for Genic Changes that Shaped being Human"

Derek Denton
"Relaxin: Its Relevance in Relation to the Development of the Human Brain"

William Calvin
"The Hunting Pumps"