Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
November 15-16, 2002
Todd Preuss
Mini-Symposium: Primate Brain Evolution
(Organizer and Moderator)
Pasko Rakic
"Modification of Mechanisms of Brain Development in Human Evolution"
Carrolee Barlow
"Connecting Anatomy to Gene Expression: Comparative Expression Profiling Between Primates"
Todd Preuss
"Modification of Visual-system Organization in Ape and Human Evolution"
(plus data from Patrick Hof presented in absentia)
Katerina Semendeferi (presented in absentia by Todd Preuss)
and
James Rilling
"Was the Enlargement of the Brain in Human Evolution Accompanied by Changes in the Proportions of Major Brain Divisions?"
Francis Crick
Comments on Mini-Symposium
Open Discussion
Lawrence I. Grossman
"Accelerated Evolution of the Electron Transport Chain in Primates: A Brief Update"
Gary Marcus
"Plasticity and Nativism: Towards a Resolution of an Apparent Paradox"
Terrance Deacon
"Genes, Brain Development, and Identifying the Human Difference"