Understanding Human Origins: Implications for Medicine | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

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

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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
John Allman	Von Economo Neurons in Human Neuropsychiatric Illness
Randolph Nesse	Psychiatric Disease in Evolutionary Perspective
Margaret Schoeninger	Closing Remarks