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	Media	Session
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