Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
Symposium Title: "The Origin and Fate of the Neanderthals"
Margaret Schoeninger, University of California, San Diego, Program Chair
Opening Remarks
Svante Paabo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
"Neanderthal DNA"
John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Combining Morphology and Population Genetics"
Henry Harpending, University of Utah
"Molecular Genetics and Modern Humans/Neandertals"
Rachel Caspari, Central Michigan University/University of Michigan
"Changes in Life History Patterns Throughout the Paleolithic"
John Speth, University of Michigan
"Could Neanderthals Chew Gum and Walk at the Same Time? A Look at Current Archaeological Ideas About the Last 'Archaic' Humans"
Steve Churchill, Duke University
"The Cost of Life in Ice Age Europe"
Alison Brooks, GW Paleoanthropological Field Program in China, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
"Paleolithic Tool Industries"