Dear All
List members may be interested in the following:
Wednesday 12 March at 6.30pm, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace,
London SW1
The Royal Society Claude Bernard Lecture 2003
The origins of man: a bunch of ancestors by Professor Yves Coppens
Apes and humans are cousins: our last common ancestors lived around 10
million years ago in tropical Africa. In this lecture, Yves Coppens,
Professor of Palaeoanthropology and Prehistory at the Collège de France,
Paris, will consider how and why early prehumans became humans and migrated
from Africa to the wider world.
Yves Coppens is one of the world's leading palaeoanthropologists. He has
dedicated his life to exploring, discovering and studying some of the most
significant fossil finds ever made in the search for human origins. Perhaps
Coppen's most acclaimed find occurred in 1974 in the Ethiopian rift valley,
with the co-discovery of 'Lucy', a 3.5 million-year old nearly complete
fossil of a female Australopithecus. He has published over 800 titles on
palaeontology, palaeoanthropology, prehistory and archaeology.
The Claude Bernard Lecture is given annually by a senior French scientist as
part of an exchange agreement with the Académie des Sciences of the Institut
de France.
Tickets are FREE and can be obtained by contacting the Events Desk - tel:
020 7451 2572; email: [log in to unmask]
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