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Innovation and Environmental Disruption During the Origin of Homo sapiens
Coe Auditorium, Buffalo Bill Center of the West 720 Sheridan Avenue, CodyIn this talk, Dr. Rick Potts will discuss how recent discoveries at the Kenyan site of Olorgesailie represent milestones in technological, ecological, and social evolution that coincided with the oldest ages for fossils attributed to Homo sapiens in Africa.
Innovation and Environmental Disruption During the Origin of Homo sapiens
Coe Auditorium, Buffalo Bill Center of the West 720 Sheridan Avenue, CodyIn this talk, Dr. Rick Potts will discuss how recent discoveries at the Kenyan site of Olorgesailie represent milestones in technological, ecological, and social evolution that coincided with the oldest ages for fossils attributed to Homo sapiens in Africa.
Atapuerca: Crossroads of Human Evolution in Europe
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118, San FranciscoIn this talk María Martinón-Torres will discuss her work tracing the origins of our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals. She will also share how fossils of Homo antecessor, an early human species, found at Atapuerca have shifted our understanding of the ancestry of the first Europeans.