USP Lecture: Origins of the genus Homo
A Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Inovação convida toda a comunidade USP para o evento USP Lecture - "Origins of the genus Homo", com o professor Bernard Wood, George Washington University, a ser realizado no dia 9 de outubro de 2023, às 16 horas, na Sala do Conselho Universitário - Prédio da Reitoria - Rua da Reitoria, 374 - térreo.
O evento será transmitido via YouTube e não haverá tradução para o português. Para os que participarem presencialmente, haverá emissão de certificado (não é necessário fazer inscrição prévia).
The origin of Homo conflates several ‘origins’ problems. When did our ancestors look the way we expect the earliest members of our genus to have looked, and when did our ancestors behave in the way we expect the earliest members of our genus to have behaved? The search for the origin of a living genus can be conducted either from the bottom up, or from the top down. Both strategies have their problems. This talk will review those problems, survey the history of attempts to find the earliest members of the genus Homo, set out options for what we are looking for within the hominin fossil record, and explain why the search for the origins of any species or genus is fraught with difficulties.
Transmissão: Canal da PRPI no Youtube
Bernard Wood is the University Professor of Human Origins at George Washington University. In 1968 he joined Richard Leakey's first expedition to the Turkana Basin, Kenya, and he subsequently joined the group of researchers working on the hominins recovered from East Turkana. He has published 252 refereed scientific articles and book chapters, and more than a hundred articles and commentaries. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including a 1991 major monograph on the hominin cranial remains from Koobi Fora, atlases of ape soft-tissue anatomy, and the non-technical Human Evolution, A Very Short Introduction. He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. He is best known for his research on the origins of Homo, the paleobiology of Paranthropus boisei, hominin systematics, phylogeny reconstruction, comparative morphology and the epistemology of paleoanthropology. His research has been cited more that 20K times, with an h-index of 80, and an i10-index of 209.