Overview

In the September 26, 2005, Anthropology Section Inaugural Lecture, Leslie Aiello of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research discussed her 30-year passion for the study of the evolution of adaptation in modern humans. Drawing on research on climate change and the evolution of human walking, diet, cooperation, language, physiology, and thermoregulation, she described the complex course of our seven-million-year evolutionary history and how biology and culture interacted to make us human. Topics discussed include the implications of the discovery of Homo floresiensis and the consequences of cooking for human evolution.

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