Were our animal ancestors apes— or something surprisingly different? Watch, and join in, as two leading scholars of human evolution argue this.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY DIALOGUES IN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY #8

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 2013

Found in Ethiopia in 1994, a mysterious 4.4-million-year-old skeleton was proclaimed in 2009 as a revolutionary, unexpected find: an early human ancestor that walked upright on the ground and all fours in the trees, proving that there was never a long-armed apelike phase in the human lineage. Two leading experts on human fossils, William Jungers from Stony Brook University and William Kimbel from Arizona State University, will debate what the fossils of Ardipithecus mean and whether they have transformed our understanding of human evolution. !READ THE ONLINE STATEMENTS, WATCH THE WEBCAST, COME AT 4:30 TO QUESTION THE PANEL, AND JOIN US FOR THE RECEPTION AT 6:00!

Proclaiming Ardipithecus: A Revolution in Our Understanding of Human Origins?

Streaming Webcast at 3pm bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/ardi/dialogue-webcast

Public Panel Discussion at 4:30pm 4th Floor, BU Hillel House213 Bay State Road, Boston