9:00 - 9:30am
Symposium

The French Connection: From the Omo to the Afar

Donald Johanson
Les héritiers de Lucy / Lucy's Heirs
9:00 - 9:30am
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Donald Johanson

    Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, USA

    Events

    Opening
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Symposium
    8:30 - 9:00am

    The French Connection: From the Omo to the Afar
    Donald Johanson

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am

    Environments and human evolution in Africa : a plea for the global paleontological record
    Jean-Renaud Boisserie

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

    In Chad... Abel & Toumai, the two new icons of our ancient evolutionary history
    Michel Brunet

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    New Hominid Fossils from the Basal and Mid-Pliocene of Kenya…
    Martin Pickford

    Symposium
    11:00 - 11:30am

    From Miocene to Pliocene and the origin of australopithecines
    Brigitte Senut

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:00pm

    The age of Little Foot (StW 573) and australopithecines from the Sterkfontein site (South Africa)
    Laurent Bruxelles

    Symposium
    1:30 - 2:00pm

    One, two or three Australopithecus species in southern Africa?…
    Amélie Beaudet

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    Mid-Pliocene Hominin Diversity Revisited
    Fred Spoor & Hester Hanegraef

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

    Lucy's Next-Door Neighbors: She Was Not Alone!
    Yohannes Haile-Selassie

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

    Singularity or plurality of artisans and material cultures in the Plio-Pleistocene ?…
    Sandrine Prat

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:30pm

    Lucy's Lineage: Exploring the Progression of Hominin Behavioral Evolut…
    David R. Braun

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:00pm

    Did Lucy carve the  stone? What do discoveries in East Africa tell us
    Hélène Roche

    Symposium
    5:00 - 5:30pm

    On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use
    Shannon P. McPherron

    Symposium
    5:30 - 6:00pm

    The New Status of Australopithecus
    Zeray Alemseged

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am

    Shoulders of Apes and Australopiths: Digital Advancements in the Study of Structure and Function…
    Stephanie Melillo

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

    Exploring Early Hominin Evolution through Developmental Biology and Ne…
    José Braga

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    Heirs Without Descendants
    Bernard Wood

    Symposium
    11:00 - 11:30am

    Dinner with Lucy: What Does Paranthropus Boisei Bring to the Table?…
    Matt Sponheimer

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:00pm

    The Real Paleo Diet: Reconstructing Early Hominin Meat Consumption…
    Tina Lüdecke

    Symposium
    12:00 - 12:30pm
    Not recorded

    Is Australopithecus Sediba the Ancestor of Homo?…
    Thomas Davies

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    Lucy's Grandchild Homo Naledi
    Zachary Cofran

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

    How can we distinguish early humans from Lucy's relatives ?
    Clément Zanolli

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm
    Not recorded

    Retrospect
    Ian Tattersall

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:00pm

    Fence
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:30pm

    See also

    Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology
    Les héritiers de Lucy / Lucy's Heirs