The Science of the Human Past

Agenda

8:00 Coffee and Continental breakfast
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Svante Pääbo, “Genomic Perspectives on Human Origins”
9:30 Brief comment and discussion

9:45 Coffee

10:15 Beth Shapiro, "Did we kill the megafauna?"
10:45 Brief comment and discussion
11:00 Michael Hammer, “Sex-Biased Evolutionary Forces Shape Genomic Patterns of Human
Diversity”
11:30 Brief comment and discussion

11:45 Lunch

1:00 Mark Thomas, “Diffusing Culture, Migrating Genes: The Origins of Lactase Persistence and
Dairying in Europe”
1:30 Brief comment and discussion
1:45 Noreen Tuross, “Dietary Differences Among Neanderthals”
2:15 Brief comment and discussion
2:30 Steve Weiner, “Extracting Information from the Archaeological Record by Using Atomic
Disorder”
3:00 Brief comment and discussion

3:15 Coffee

3:45 Tandy Warnow, “Mathematical methods for detecting contact events between
linguistic groups, and the history of the Indo-Europeans”
4:15 Brief comment and discussion
4:30 Nick Patterson, “Learning the genetic history of South Asia from genome-wide data”
5:00 Brief comment and discussion
5:15 Concluding remarks

5:30-6:30 Reception