Growing Up Fast but Maturing Slowly: A Uniquely Human Pattern of Development

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Speaker(s)

Philipp Gunz

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Events

The Intermittent Evidence for Fire in Neandertal Sites Means They Were not Obligate Fire Users…

40 Years of Investigation on Ancient Hominin Diets through Isotope Studies: Limits …

Partners in Chyme: Hominin-Microbial Interactions in Energy Acquisition

Energy Cost and Gain from Prey Acquisition and Food Processing during the Palaeolithic

Mitigating the Metabolic and Other Costs of a Largely Meat-Based Neanderthal Diet

Coping with Prey Seasonal Fluctuations: A Year in the Life of Paleolithic Hunters

Growing Up Fast but Maturing Slowly: A Uniquely Human Pattern of Development

Speaker(s)

Philipp Gunz

Events

Opening Remarks

The Expensive Brain: Predictions and Comparative Tests

Brain Energetics and the Evolution of Human Childhood

Growing Up Fast but Maturing Slowly: A Uniquely Human Pattern of Development

Born to Walk, Run and Rest: The Evolution of Locomotor Energetics in Homo

Reproductive Energetics in Primates

Neandertal Energetic Ecology, Reproduction, and Demography

Metabolic Acceleration in the Genus Homo: Brains, Babies, and Bipedalism

The Costs of Fire

Traces of Fire Use in Pleistocene Europe: Patterns and Interpretations

The Intermittent Evidence for Fire in Neandertal Sites Means They Were not Obligate Fire Users…

40 Years of Investigation on Ancient Hominin Diets through Isotope Studies: Limits …

Partners in Chyme: Hominin-Microbial Interactions in Energy Acquisition

Energy Cost and Gain from Prey Acquisition and Food Processing during the Palaeolithic

Mitigating the Metabolic and Other Costs of a Largely Meat-Based Neanderthal Diet

Coping with Prey Seasonal Fluctuations: A Year in the Life of Paleolithic Hunters

General Discussion-Closing Remarks

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