Meeting: Catalysis Meeting

Primate Fossil Analysis


Date16-Feb-2006 ~ 19-Feb-2006
ProjectPrimate fossil analysis
SummaryThe goal for this catalysis meeting is to bring together for the first time a group of scientists who are experts within their discipline and who use different methods to reconstruct behavior in fossil primates. Reconstructing behavior and evolutionary pathways in fossil animals is complex and requires information about function, phylogeny, and behavior derived from field and laboratory studies. Yet in many disciplines researchers in these disparate areas rarely collaborate or even talk. Studies of primate and human evolution are particularly hindered by a lack of communication between paleontologists, field biologists, morphometricians, and phylogeneticists The goal for this catalysis meeting is to bring together for the first time a group of scientists who are experts within their discipline and who use different methods to reconstruct behavior in fossil primates. The participants represent the most accomplished anthropologists of their generation as well as many promising, young anthropologists. Working on a model of interdisciplinary research promoted by Dr. Michael Rose, we will hold a series of informal presentations geared toward fostering a new attitude of collaboration yielding novel research in this important field. Representatives: University of Toronto, University of Puerto Rico, Duke University, University of Colorado, Northwestern University, Stony Brook University, Northern Illinois University, New York University, Yale University, Indiana University, University of Illinois, University of Alberta, Ohio State University, Osaka University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, New Jersey Medical School, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, North East Ohio Medical College, Pennsylvania State University, University Missouri, Columbia
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