2008 Presenters
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![Robin I. M. Dunbar](images/dunbar-sm.jpg)
Robin I. M. Dunbar
“Mind the Gap: Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes”
Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology; Director, Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Co-Director of the British Academy’s Centenary Research Project, Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain, a multidisciplinary project involving several universities, studying how the human brain evolved and the role language played.
![Marcus Feldman](images/feldman-sm.jpg)
Marcus W. Feldman
“The History of Migration and Selection Seen through the Human Genome”
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Director, Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies; Wohlford Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
![J. Wentzel van Huyssteen](images/vanhuyssteen-sm.jpg)
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
“Human Origins and Religious Awareness — An Interdisciplinary Challenge for Theology?”
James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science, Princeton Theological Seminary
![Curtis Marean](images/marean-sm.jpg)
Curtis Marean
“The African Evidence for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior”
Paleoanthropologist; Professor, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University at Tempe
![Svante Pääbo](images/paabo-sm.jpg)
Svante Pääbo
“A Neandertal View of Human Origins”
Molecular Biologist; Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
![Dennis Stanford](images/stanford-sm.jpg)
Dennis J. Stanford
“The Ice-Age Discovery of the America: Constructing an Iberian Solution”
Head of the Archaeology Division, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution