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4-0260 THE SCARS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:  Karen Rosenberg ( and University of Delaware) and Rachel Caspari (Central Michigan University)
Chairs:  Rachel Caspari (Central Michigan University) and Karen Rosenberg (University of Delaware)
Discussants:  Jonathan M Marks (University of North Carolina Charlotte) and Milford Wolpoff (University of Michigan)
08:00
Wisdom Can Be Painful: Third Molar Impaction In Human Populations and Its Evolutionary Significance
Alan Mann (Princeton University) and Janet M Monge (University of Pennsylvania)
08:15
Starting off On the Wrong Foot. How Our Ape Ancestry Predisposes Us to Foot and Ankle Maladies
Jeremy M DeSilva (Boston University)
08:30
A Backache of Longstanding: An Evolutionary Perspective On the Vertebral Column
Bruce Latimer (Case Western Reserve University)
08:45
Co-Evolution of Human Sociocultural Systems, Chronic Degenerative Conditions and Longevity
Douglas E. Crews (Ohio State University)
09:00
Metabolic Challenges of the Modern World: Evolutionary Perspectives On Human Nutritional Health
William R. Leonard (Northwestern University)
09:15
Recent Acceleration of Human Evolution: When Genes Break
John D Hawks (University of Wisconsin)
09:30
Scars of Past Stress, Impact On Later Development: The Barker Hypothesis In Prehistory
George J Armelagos (Emory University)
09:45
Break
10:00
Laboring Humans: Giving Birth to Large-Brained, Large, Helpless Babies
Karen Rosenberg (University of Delaware and )
10:15
Postpartum Depression In Evolutionary Perspective:A Consequence of Reduction In Social Support?
Barbara A Piperata (Ohio State University)
10:30
Scars or Stars? Human Infants In the Story of Human EvolutionHuman Parents, Alloparents and Infants: “Stars” Not “Scars” In Evolutionary Perspective
James J McKenna (University of Notre Dame) and Wenda Trevathan (New Mexico State University)
10:45
Violence Against Women: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Debra L Martin (UNLV) and Ryan P Harrod (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
11:00
Race and Racism: Legacy of Human Evolution?
Rachel Caspari (Central Michigan University)
11:15
Discussant
Jonathan M Marks (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
11:30
Discussant
Milford Wolpoff (University of Michigan)
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