The Evolution of Human Nutrition
A public symposium hosted by the UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), which will bring together scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds, including Department of Anthropology Chair and Professor Clark Spencer Larsen,to explore the diets of our ancestors.
The symposium will address a variety of issues including how tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past and offer clues to the origin of many health problems that we currently face, such as obesity and chronic disease; what did early humans eat; and were the nutritional requirements and dietary needs of contemporary humans established in our prehistoric past?
Tune into the webcast for a lively discussion about the changing diets of our ancestors - from australopith diets to current hunter-gatherer diets - and what role these dietary transitions played in the evolution of humans. Access to the live webcast for this symposium will be provided at 1 pm (Pacific Time).
To gain access to the live webcast, click here to create a CARTA user account here: http://carta.anthropogeny.org/user
Additional speakers include:
Leslie C. Aiello, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Reserach
Richard Wrangham, Harvard University
Alison S. Brooks, George Washington University
Steven Leigh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Margaret J. Schoeninger, University of California at San Diego
Mary C. Stiner, University of Arizona
Alyssa Crittenden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Peter Ungar, University of Arkansas
Barry Bogin, Loughborough University (UK)
LIVESTEAMING can be accessed here, http://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/the-evolution-of-human-nutrition
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http://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/culture-gene-interactions-human-evolution
The lineup of talks given by distinguished speakers includes:
