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The Wenner-Gren Foundation has two major goals – to support significant and innovative anthropological research into humanity's biological and cultural origins, development and variation and to foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology.
The Anthropology Section of the prestigious New York Academy of the Sciences will be holding its monthly meeting at the Wenner-Gren Foundation offices on Monday, January 30 at 7:00 PM. For this session, NYAS and the Foundation welcome Dr. Terry Harrison to discusses the problems and caveats involved with identifying the earliest specimens of Homo sapiens' evolutionary lineage and making inferences about their relationships.
"The Earliest Human Ancestors: Sorting the Contenders from the Pretenders" will be preceded by a reception at 6:00 PM.
“The Anthropology of Potentiality” was held from October 28-November 4, 2011, near Teresópolis, Brazil. Organizers of the meeting were Karen-Sue Taussig (U. of Minnesota) and Klaus Hoeyer (U. of Copenhagen). Eighteen scholars from Denmark, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States explored how anthropology can develop our understandings of the medical practices where potentiality is articulated and how such articulations interact with moral notions of humanness.