World's Leading Thinkers Discuss Human Origins at What Makes Us Human?
Los Angeles Is About to Experience a Meeting of the Minds Where Some of the World's Leading Scholars -- Scientists, Anthropologi
Apr. 23, 2008 07:00 AM
PASADENA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/23/08 -- The interdisciplinary "What Makes Us
Human?" Conference is jointly sponsored by the Vision.org Foundation and the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.
News of the recently discovered ancient European toothed hominin jawbone
fragment, as reported in the March 27, 2008 scientific journal Nature, has
raised more questions about human origins. This important find comes at a
time when some of the world's most respected thinkers and researchers in
the fields of archaeology, anthropology, biology and other fields will have
the opportunity to discuss its significance. Read press release
here. Members of the media will have the opportunity to interview six
panelists including:
Frans de Waal, Dutch-born ethologist/biologist famed for drawing parallels
between primate animal and human animal behavior will focus on what sets
the human animal apart from the primates.
Ian Tattersall, prominent interpreter of human paleontology, is curator in
the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in
New York City who concentrates his research on the analysis of the human
fossil record and the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar.
Craig Stanford, an authority on human evolution and primate behavior who is
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at USC and Director, USC
Jane Goodall Research Center.
Arnold Schwartzman, a filmmaker and noted director of design for the 1984
Olympic Games who produced the Academy Award® winning documentary feature
film, "GENOCIDE" (1981), among others.
Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist best known for his discovery of the
Lucy skeleton, the widely studied fossil find of the 20th century.
David
Hulme, Chairman of Vision.org Foundation, focuses on international
relations with an emphasis on the Middle East. Author of "Identity,
Ideology and the Jerusalem Question."
Other conference panelists include John Allman, Miguel Angel Corzo, Antonio
Damasio, Marc Hauser, William Hurlbut, Christine Kenneally, Bruce Lahn,
Barbara Lambert, Charles Pasternak, John Shea, Jeffrey Schwartz, Bruce
Weber, and other experts in psychology, religion, culture, arts,
philosophy, emotions, biological anthropology and human/animal behavior.
WHEN: V.I.P. Press Event and Cocktail Party: Monday, April 28 @ 6:30 PM
Conference: Monday, April 28 @ 8 AM through Tuesday,
April 29, 2008 @ 4:30 PM
WHERE: V.I.P. Press Conference and Cocktail Party
Museum of Natural History (Lobby)
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(In Exposition Park, across from USC between Vermont and Figueroa.)
What Makes us Human? Conference:
The Conference is at Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The cost for registration to attend the "What Makes Us
Human?" Conference is $99.00. For more information visit
www.whatmakesushuman.info.
AUDIO AND VISUALS: Pre-conference audio interviews and visual b-roll
available upon request. Listen to what ordinary people think about what makes us human.
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