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Program Overview

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

17:00 Welcome mixer (cash bar)


Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

Morning plenum:
Wolfgang Enard (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology / Department of Evolutionary Genetics / Leipzig):
"The genetical basis of human language"

Morning sessions/symposia

Noon:
Opening ceremony

Afternoon debate:
Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) and Keith Stenning (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh):
"The evolution of cognitive mechanisms"

Early afternoon sessions/symposia

Afternoon plenum:
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology / Department of Linguistics / Leipzig):
"Languages and Genes, Inheritance and Replacement"


Late afternoon sessions/symposia

Evening:
Keynote Speaker Peter Hammerstein
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin

18:45: Keynote lecture (Audimax)
20:00: Banquet (Harnack House, not included in the conference fee)


Friday, July 23rd, 2004

Morning plenum:
Hans Peter Kohler (Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania):
"Genetics and the Biodemography of Fertility"

Morning sessions/symposia

Noon:
HBES Student Members meeting

Early afternoon sessions/symposia

Afternoon plenum:
James Carey (Biodemographic Determinants of Life Span Program, University of California, Davis; Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley):
"The evolution of human longevity"

Late afternoon sessions/symposia

Late afternoon:
Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (members only)

Evening:
Boat tour (not included in the conference fee)


Saturday, July 24th, 2004

Morning plenum:
Richard Dawkins (Department of Biology, Oxford University) and others:
Memorial for John Maynard Smith

Morning sessions/symposia

Early afternoon sessions/symposia

Afternoon plenum:
Mark Stoneking (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology / Department of Molecular Anthropology / Leipzig):
"Maternal and paternal histories of human populations"

Late afternoon sessions/symposia

Evening:
Poster session


Sunday, July 25th, 2004

Morning sessions/symposia

Satellite meetings
In previous years, members of HBES and others found it convenient to organize own meetings immediately after the main HBES meeting. For that purpose, space is available in the Henry Ford Bau during Sunday 25th. HBES will not charge you for attending, but the organizers of such satellite meeting might do so. Please note that HBES is not responsible for these satellite meetings, and will only transmit information about them. At this time, the local organiser is not aware of any plans to hold such a meeting during Sunday 25th.