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Female in Evolution: Paleoanthropology Q&A

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The Leakey Foundation

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Partner:: Leakey Foundation
Location:: California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 04.28.12
Speakers:: Dean Falk,; Leslea Hlusko,; Daniel Lieberman
Tags:: women; female

Summary: A question and answer session from the paleoanthropology presentations.

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Dean Falk

Dean Falk is an evolutionary anthropologist who splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), and Tallahassee, Florida where she is the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University. Her work focuses on the evolution of the human brain and cognition. Recent projects include collaborative research on Homo floresiensis (â€œHobbitâ€) and an investigation of the brain of Albert Einstein.

Leslea Hlusko

Dr. Leslea Hlusko earned her PhD from Penn State University in 2000. She is currently an Associate Professor Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Her research focuses on how genes influence skeletal variation and how this has evolved through time as seen in the fossil record, focusing on primates and human evolution. Her lab projects include gene expression studies and quantitative genetic analyses. She co-directs the Olduvai Vertebrate Paleontology Project at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Daniel Lieberman

Dr. Daniel Lieberman is a Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and Chair of the Biological Anthropology Department, while also serving on the Curatorial Board of the Peabody Museum. Dr. Lieberman is recognized as a leading expert on morphology and is especially interested in when, how and why early hominins first became bipeds, and then became so exceptional as long distance endurance runners. He is a member of the Leakey Foundation Scientific Executive Committee.

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01.: Q1: Higher Pitched Voices in Women?

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02.: Q2: Why Babies Still Rotate During Birth?

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03.: Q3: Cross-Cultural Child Rearing Tools?

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04.: Q4: Relationship Between Tools Usage and Muscular Strength?

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05.: Q5: Determining When Language First Developed from Fossils?

01 min 51 sec

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06.: Q6: Connection Between Music and Speech?

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07.: Q7: Difference Between Male and Female Endurance Running?

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08.: Q8: Lucy's Gender?

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09.: Q9: Evolution of the Shape of the Female Pelvis?

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10.: Q10: Evolution of Helplessness in Infants?

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11.: Q11: Ardipithecus and Changing Views on Evolution?

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Which Came First: Language or Music?

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Anthropologist Dean Falk responds to an audience question about whether language or music evolved first. Falk believes that they may have evolved together.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

human evolution: Evolution of modern human beings from extinct nonhuman and humanlike forms. Genetic evidence points to an evolutionary divergence between the lineages of humans and the great apes on the African continent 8–5 million years ago (mya). The earliest fossils considered to be remains of hominins (members of the human lineage) date to at least 4 mya in Africa; they include the genus Australopithecus and other forms. The next major evolutionary stage, Homo habilis, inhabited sub-Saharan Africa about 2–1.5 mya. Homo habilis appears to have been supplanted by a taller and more humanlike species, Homo erectus, which lived from c. 1,700,000 to 200,000 years ago, gradually migrating into Asia and parts of Europe. Between c. 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, Homo heidelbergensis, sometimes called archaic Homo sapiens, lived in Africa, Europe, and perhaps parts of Asia. Having features resembling those of both H. erectus and modern humans, H. heidelbergensis may have been an ancestor of modern humans and also of the Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis), who inhabited Europe and western Asia from c. 200,000 to 28,000 years ago. Fully modern humans (H. sapiens) seem to have emerged in Africa only c. 150,000 years ago, perhaps having descended directly from H. erectus or from an intermediate species such as H. heidelbergensis.; human evolution on britannica.com