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CONFERENCE 8–13 FEBRUARY 2009
MELBOURNE CONVENTION CENTRE AUSTRALIA
http://evolution09.com.au/index.php
кстати, 10 февраля там будет доклад:
Richard Roberts, University of Wollongong, Australia
Written in Stone and Blood: Genetics, Archaeology and Modern Human Evolution Written in stone and blood: genetics, archaeology and modern human evolution.
Homo sapiens is a creative species. The anatomical origins of modern humans can be traced back almost 200,000 years, and artefacts made of durable materials such as stone, bone, and shell bear witness to the activities of our ancestors. But the first evidence for symbols and personal ornaments is much more recent, perhaps only 70,000 years old. Many suggestions have been offered as possible explanations for this apparently delayed emergence of symbolic behaviour—a trait unique to modern humans—with the invention of language being foremost among these. Genetic mutations and environmental changes have also been proposed as possible catalysts for these Stone Age technological and cognitive innovations. Charles Darwin considered natural selection sufficient to explain the emergence of the modern human
intellect (The Descent of Man, 1871), but the same view was not held by Alfred Russel Wallace.
We now have a wealth of fossil and archaeological evidence that was not available to Darwin or Wallace, yet still there is no consensus on when and why modern human cognition first appeared. Fresh clues to this long-standing riddle are, however, now emerging from recent archaeological discoveries in Africa, India and southeast Asia, allied to detailed genetic studies of living humans worldwide. These independent lines of enquiry suggest that the earliest appearance of symbolic objects
and associated technological innovations was broadly coincident with a major
population expansion of modern humans within Africa, and that these events were followed soon after by the first successful exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa. The resultant global dispersal of our species had consequences, often dire, for the
other inhabitants of planet Earth. In this talk, I will explore some of the recent scientific findings on the process of ‘becoming human’, which involves not only the acquisition of our anatomical features but also emergence of symbolic behaviour, language and other cognitive attributes that we uniquely associate with our species.
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