Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Thursday, February 24th 11:30-1:00 ANSO 134
Jean-Jacques Hublin (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Neandertals deciphered
Neandertals were the first fossil hominins discovered and, since then, have been the most studied.However, it is only in the last two decades that entirely new techniques have made fascinating insights into their biology and behavior possible. Beyond their odd anatomy, we are now able to explore the mechanisms of their birth and growth or the way their brains developed. The decoding of their genome has opened a new era in Paleoanthropology. The debates surrounding the Neandertals are captivating because they are so close and so different from us. Ultimately, understanding the rise and the fall of the Neandertals will help us to elucidate the unrivaled evolutionary success of our own species.
