2008 Presenters

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 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

“Human Origins and Religious Awareness — An Interdisciplinary Challenge for Theology?”

James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science, Princeton Theological Seminary

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

“A Neandertal View of Human Origins”

Molecular Biologist; Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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