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Paul Mickey Science Series: There Are Neandertals Among Us!
- Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
- Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2015, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Presented by Fred H. Smith, Ph.D., Illinois State University
The debate over the role of Neandertals in the ancestry of modern people is the longest running controversy in human evolutionary studies and one of the oldest in science. By the first decade of the current century, analyses of morphology, behavior, neuroanatomy, and genetics strongly supported a model indicating that Neandertals were a separate biological species from modern humans and represented our cousins but not our ancestors. Neandertal genomic data have changed this picture. We will discuss the impact of the genetic and genomic information, the fact that Neandertal contributions to modern Eurasians have long been evident in their anatomy, and some alternate perspectives on the driving forces behind the distinctive form of the Neandertal skull.
One of our Paul Mickey Science Series
Discover Illinois' rich prehistoric and historic past by attending an ISM Paul Mickey Science Series Program. A different speaker and topic are featured each month. For more information on upcoming topics and speakers, please contact Nina Walthall at (217) 782-0061 or 217-785-0037. - Usually held the second Wednesday of Each Month
- 7:00 to 8:30 PM
- Held at the ISM Research & Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street (enter the building from 10 ½ Street between Ash & Laurel Streets), Springfield, Illinois
- Free Admission
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