Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
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Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
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November 17-19, 2000

William Hopkins
"Genetic Models of Human Handedness: Implications of Recent Findings in Chimpanzees"

Minisymposium: Where does language come from?

David Perlmutter
"What Sign Languages Reveal about the Human Capacity for Language"

Susan Goldin-Meadow
"The Resilience of Language"

Judy Shepard-Kegl
"Language Emergence in a Language-Ready Brain"

Ann Senghas
"How Learning Shapes A Language: Spatial Constructions in the Second Cohort of Nicaraguan Signers"

Daniel Povinelli and Todd Preuss
"Exploring the Organization & Activities of the Human Mind & Brain through Comparative Studies of Humans, Apes, & Monkeys"

Roy D'Andrade
"Human & Primate Intersubjectivity"

Richard Klein
"Modern Human Origins"


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