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SUMMARY:The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens - Prof Chris Stringer\, N
 atural History Museum\, London
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CONTACT:Aurélien Mounier
DESCRIPTION:Genetic data suggest that we and our sister species Homo neand
 erthalensis shared a last common ancestor in the middle Pleistocene ~400-7
 00ka\, but the nature of that ancestor is currently uncertain. Those dates
  are at least 200\,000 years earlier than the species origin indicated fro
 m fossils such as Omo Kibish 1 and Herto. However\, variation across Afric
 an later middle Pleistocene/early Middle Stone Age fossils shows that ther
 e was not a simple linear progression towards later sapiens morphology\, a
 nd there was chronological overlap between 'archaic' and 'modern' morphs. 
 Further complexity is added by growing evidence of late Pleistocene inter-
 lineage gene flow.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Henry Wellcome Building\, Division of Biological A
 nthropology\, Fitzwilliam Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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