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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series: \"From Fossils to the Forest\"
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology presents its Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series\, \"From Fossils to the Forest.\" \n\nRecent discoveries of 20-million-year-old fossil apes in eastern Africa have revealed that the first erect apes did not live in forests\, but in grassy woodlands. Such habitats were previously thought to have been key to the origins of bipedalism about 7 million years ago\, but it is now clear they were present much earlier. In this four-part series\, Anthropology Professor Laura MacLatchy will consider fossil and modern apes living in forests and savannas to untangle the connections between habitat\, locomotion and diet that influenced the evolution of the ape and human lineages.\n\nThe Rappaport lectures will take place on the following Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Michigan League's Henderson Room (third floor). They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 20\nApe and Human Evolution: Miocene and Modern Insights\n\nFriday\, Nov. 15\nFrom Fossils to the Forest\n\nFriday\, Jan. 10\nChimpanzees and the Origins of Bipedalism\n\nFriday\, Feb. 14\nWatching and Rewatching Chimpanzees: Exploring Locomotion on Video\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nA reception will follow each lecture. If you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT PROFESSOR LAURA MACLATCHY\nLaura MacLatchy is a professor of anthropology and associate research scientist with the Museum of Paleontology. She is interested in the relationship between biological form and function\, with a research focus on primate locomotor evolution and its role in ape and human origins. The investigation of the locomotor ecology of our ape predecessors and the nature of their behavioral transitions — including dietary and body size changes — is a centerpiece of her research\, which includes ongoing fossil site exploration in eastern Uganda\, and locomotor studies of chimpanzees in equatorial Africa.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122505
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room (third floor)
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