Understanding Human Origins: Implications for Medicine

Event Date (Pacific Time):

Friday, Dec 12, 2008 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Venue:

Event Sessions:

Media for each talk can be played by clicking on icons in the table below, or by clicking on the individual talk titles below and then the attachment file at the bottom of the page.

Speakers	Session	Media
Fred Gage	Opening Remarks
Bernard Wood	A Brief Overview of Human Evolution
Kurt Benirschke	Uniquely-Human Features of Female Reproductive Biology
Stephen Stearns	Unique Features of Human Life History
James McKenna	Mother-Infant Relationships and Implications for Infant Disorders
Wenda Trevathan	Medical Consequences of Bipedalism
Caleb Finch	Uniquely-Human Adaptations to Meat-Eating
Ajit Varki	Disease Differences Between Humans and Other Hominids Click here to watch this talk combined with the talks delivered by Allman and Nesse and Schoeninger's closing remarks.
John Allman	Von Economo Neurons in Human Neuropsychiatric Illness Click here to watch this talk combined with the talks delivered by Varki and Nesse and Schoeninger's closing remarks.
Randolph Nesse	Psychiatric Disease in Evolutionary Perspective Click here to watch this talk combined with the talks delivered by Varki and Allman and Schoeninger's closing remarks.
Margaret Schoeninger	Closing Remarks Click here to watch Schoeninger's closing remarks, which are preceded by talks delivered by Varki, Allman, and Nesse.

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2008_12_12_CARTA_2.mp4	82.87 MB

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