Reminder: Tomorrow, 8 September at 16:00 hrs: ICTP Webinar Colloquium by Prof. Chris Stringer on "Some current issues in the later stages of human evolution".

[ICTP/director]

Dear All,

You are most cordially invited to the ICTP Webinar Colloquium by 
Professor Chris Stringer on "Some current issues in the later stages of 
human evolution", on Wednesday 8 September at 16:00 hrs CET.*
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*Pre-registration* is required at the following url:

*https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2N8mOQN9TtGbqiB-u9KjCQ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar. *

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.

*Biosketch: *Chris Stringer first joined the Natural History Museum in 
1969, and joined the permanent staff in 1973, where he is now a Research 
Leader in Human Origins. His early research was on the relationship of 
Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe, but through his work on 
the Recent African Origin model for modern human origins, he now 
collaborates with archaeologists, dating specialists, and geneticists in 
attempting to reconstruct the evolution of modern humans globally. 
Stringer has excavated at sites in Britain and abroad, and directed the 
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project from 2001 until it finished 
in 2013. He is currently co-director of the follow-up Pathways to 
Ancient Britain project, with funding from the Calleva Foundation, which 
has also contributed to the foundation of a new Centre for Human 
Evolution Research. As well as many scientific papers, he has also 
written a number of books, most recently Britain: one million years of 
the human story (2014, with Rob Dinnis) and Our Human Story (2018, with 
Louise Humphrey).

*Abstract: *Many of the supposed certainties of later Pleistocene human 
evolution have been swept away in the last decade. In this talk, Prof. 
Stringer will look at some of the outstanding issues including the 
nature and timing of the last common ancestor of modern humans and 
Neanderthals, the evolution and relationships of Neanderthals, 
Denisovans and Homo sapiens, and why we are the only humans left on Earth.

The talk will be followed by a question/answer session.

For info, please check the following link: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9698/

We look forward to seeing you online!

With best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP