SOS Primates invites you to the conference “Cousins of chimpanzees and relatives of Neanderthals”. Genetics is one of the most powerful tools to understand our evolutionary success. Questions such as: Who are we and why are we the only primates to have colonised the entire planet? Are there human races? Do humans come from apes? What defines us as humans? Why did the Neanderthals disappear? Will the great apes disappear?
Tomàs Marques is Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF/CSIC) and principal investigator of the “Comparative Genomics” group. He holds a PhD from the UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), has held a fellowship in the United States and currently leads his own group at the UPF. He was recently awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Award.
| Details | |
| Date | 2 March 2020 |
| Time | 19:00 |
| Price | Gratuito Free of Charge |
| Place | |
| Centre Excursionista de Catalunya | |
| Carrer Paradís, 10 – 08002 Barcelona | |
| Telephone: 93 315 23 11 | |
| Website: http://cec.cat |