SoSe 2011
06.05.2011 | Zentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, University of Tübingen, Germany Institute of Human Genetics, University of Tübingen, Germany Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department Evolutionary Genetics, Leipzig, Germany Thema: Pleistocene “Affairs” A genetic comparison between modern humans and their extinct relatives could both address the relationship between us and them and offer the possibility to identify genetic changes that happened specifically on the human lineage. Using a combination of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies and multiple improvements in ancient DNA retrieval, the Leipzig laboratory has recently, in collaboration with several groups, completed a first version of the Neandertal genome as well as a genome sequence of an extinct hominin discovered in the Altai mountains in southern Siberia named Denisovan. The analysis of both the Neandertal and Denisovan genome revealed evidence of geneflow between certain modern human populations and both extinct hominins. |
13.05.2011 | Thema: "Finds and findings at Jebel Faya (UAE) and the Out of Africa Hypothesis" |
20.05.2011 | Thema: The Lower Palaeolithic record of Greece and the role of the wider Aegean region in early hominin dispersal patterns: new data and interpretations |
10.06.2011 | Olga Gorbanenko (Master in Coal Geology at Lomonosov Moscow State University) Thema: “Petrography and depositional environment of the Odin coal seam (Ruhr Basin)” Abstract: Series of 44 coal and clastic rock samples of Upper Carboniferous ( Westphalian) age were studied by petrological and geochemical methods in order to determine their depositional environments. These samples were selected from 6m cores of Hearvest №5 well (Ruhr Basin), from depth between 797 and 803 m. The petrographic study of odin coal seam from Ruhr basin indicates a vitrinite-rich composition. However, inertinite presents a very irregular distribution, being fusinite dominant over virtinite in a few slices. Liptinite content reached 20 per cent. Coal-facies analysis based on petrographic parameters, as GI and TPI, and geochemical results indicate that odin coal seam was deposited in dry and wet forest swamps. |
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08.07.2010 | Thema: "Function, phylogeny, and the forelimb: inference of extinct catarrhine locomotion" Abstract:
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