Human Evolution Symposium

The Seventh Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium & Workshop
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The seventh annual Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop will be held at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, July 17–22, 2009. The workshop is being organized in conjunction with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of OH-5, the type specimen of Zinjanthropus boisei, by Louis and Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge. It was this discovery that first brought attention to East Africa as an area of major importance in the study of human evolution. Further details of the symposium and workshop will be posted as they become available.

For more information, e-mail turkanabasin@stonybrook.edu or call (631) 632-5800.

About the Turkana Basin Institute

In conjunction with Richard, Meave, and Louise Leakey, Stony Brook University has created the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI), an international research institute to facilitate and support paleontological, archeological, and geological research in the Turkana Basin.

Extending back in time from modern humans; through the first pastoralists and pottery makers; the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens; early diversity in the genus Homo; and back to our earliest ancestors, the geological deposits in this large lake basin span an exceptionally long stretch of time. Read more...


Stony Brook University Human Evolution Symposium Planning Committee

Richard Leakey
Committee Chair
Professor, Anthropology
Stony Brook University

John Fleagle
Distinguished Professor, Anatomical Sciences
Stony Brook University

Frederick Grine
Professor, Anthropology
Stony Brook University

Lawrence Martin
Professor, Anthropology & Dean of the Graduate School
Stony Brook University

John Shea
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Stony Brook University