4-0260 THE SCARS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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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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