October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

[Translate to english:]

October 13 - 16, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Human Ethologie, Max-Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Andechs, Germany
Prof. Dr. William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies: Some taxa are biased in the performance of particular behavioural patterns; others appear to be ambilateral. Some taxa are biased at individual, or family, or population, or species level.
All known populations of living human beings apparently favour the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right.
This prompts the basic question: Why are humans so laterally biased? Or, to put it another way, why and how did humans evolve this peculiar trait? Current answers to these questions vary from consensual to confused: All human populations are right-biased, but to varying extents; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. This puzzle will be the focus of the symposium.
To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in the symposium come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

18:00                        Public Lecture by Tecumseh Fitch: The Biology & Evolution
                                  of Language: A Comparative Approach
                                  afterwards: Get-together and Dinner

Friday, October 14, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Welcome, introduction (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session I. Comparative (Chair: W. Schiefenhövel)
09:15 – 10:00           L. Marchant & W. C. McGrew: An ape’s view of handedness:
                                    consequence, correlation, or coincidence?
10:00 – 10:45           R. W. Byrne & C. Hobaiter: Lateral effects in the gestural
                                    communication of the wild chimpanzee
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00            J. T. Stock, T. Davies, L. Sarringhaus, C. N. Shaw: Whole forelimb
                                    skeletal asymmetry among modern humans and great apes:
                                    handedness and locomotion
12:00 – 12:45           N. Uomini: Prehistoric handedness: Archaeology and ethology
12:45                          Lunch
                                    Session II. Function (Chair: L. Marchant)
14:00 – 14:45           J. Lust, R. Geuze, A. Bouma, Ton G. G. Groothuis: Is there an
                                    advantage of lateralization in human (dual) task performance?
14:45 – 15:30           C. N. Shaw, C. L. Hoffman, J. S. Gottschall, J. T. Stock:
                                     Is ‘hand preference’ coded in the hominin skeleton? Using in-vivo 
                                     measurements of human bilateral asymmetry to understand
                                     Neanderthal behaviour
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00           W. T. Fitch & W. C. McGrew:   
                                    Round Table: Chimpanzees and other primates as models to
                                    understand human laterality
17:00 – 18:00           General Discussion
18:30                          Dinner

Saturday, October 15, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Introduction, announcements (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session III. Development (Chair: R. W. Byrne)
09:15 – 10:00           T. J. Crow: The protocadherin11xy gene-pair as determinant of
                                    cerebral asymmetry in modern Homo sapiens
10:00 – 10:45           C. McManus: What were the selection pressures for the genes for 
                                    handedness and language dominance?
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00           J. Fagard: A review on the emergence of structural and functional 
                                    asymmetries related to hand use and language in fœtus and infants
12:00 – 12:45           J. Tutkuviene & W. Schiefenhövel: Laterality (asymmetry) of handgrip
                                    strength: age and physical training related changes in Lithuanian boys,
                                    girls and conscripts
12:45 – 14:00           Lunch
                                    Session IV. Culture (Chair: W. C. McGrew)
14:00 – 14:45           H. J. Glock: The anthropological difference: a hands-on approach
14:45 – 15:30           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Health care hypothesis better predicts variation in percentages of
                                    left-handers than the fighting hypothesis
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Wulf Schiefenhövel,
                                    Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Handedness is associated with reproductive success in a
                                    non-industrial society
16:45 – 17:30           W. Schiefenhoevel & S. Eggebrecht: "Give the nice hand!" -
                                    Semantic categorisation of 'right' and 'left' in a sample of 
                                    Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages
17:30 – 18:30           General discussion, publication plans
18:30                          Dinner

Sunday, October 16, 2011

                                     Departure

Thursday, October 13, 2011

18:00                        Public Lecture by Tecumseh Fitch: The Biology & Evolution
                                  of Language: A Comparative Approach
                                  afterwards: Get-together and Dinner

Friday, October 14, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Welcome, introduction (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session I. Comparative (Chair: W. Schiefenhövel)
09:15 – 10:00           L. Marchant & W. C. McGrew: An ape’s view of handedness:
                                    consequence, correlation, or coincidence?
10:00 – 10:45           R. W. Byrne & C. Hobaiter: Lateral effects in the gestural
                                    communication of the wild chimpanzee
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00            J. T. Stock, T. Davies, L. Sarringhaus, C. N. Shaw: Whole forelimb
                                    skeletal asymmetry among modern humans and great apes:
                                    handedness and locomotion
12:00 – 12:45           N. Uomini: Prehistoric handedness: Archaeology and ethology
12:45                          Lunch
                                    Session II. Function (Chair: L. Marchant)
14:00 – 14:45           J. Lust, R. Geuze, A. Bouma, Ton G. G. Groothuis: Is there an
                                    advantage of lateralization in human (dual) task performance?
14:45 – 15:30           C. N. Shaw, C. L. Hoffman, J. S. Gottschall, J. T. Stock:
                                     Is ‘hand preference’ coded in the hominin skeleton? Using in-vivo 
                                     measurements of human bilateral asymmetry to understand
                                     Neanderthal behaviour
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00           W. T. Fitch & W. C. McGrew:   
                                    Round Table: Chimpanzees and other primates as models to
                                    understand human laterality
17:00 – 18:00           General Discussion
18:30                          Dinner

Saturday, October 15, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Introduction, announcements (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session III. Development (Chair: R. W. Byrne)
09:15 – 10:00           T. J. Crow: The protocadherin11xy gene-pair as determinant of
                                    cerebral asymmetry in modern Homo sapiens
10:00 – 10:45           C. McManus: What were the selection pressures for the genes for 
                                    handedness and language dominance?
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00           J. Fagard: A review on the emergence of structural and functional 
                                    asymmetries related to hand use and language in fœtus and infants
12:00 – 12:45           J. Tutkuviene & W. Schiefenhövel: Laterality (asymmetry) of handgrip
                                    strength: age and physical training related changes in Lithuanian boys,
                                    girls and conscripts
12:45 – 14:00           Lunch
                                    Session IV. Culture (Chair: W. C. McGrew)
14:00 – 14:45           H. J. Glock: The anthropological difference: a hands-on approach
14:45 – 15:30           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Health care hypothesis better predicts variation in percentages of
                                    left-handers than the fighting hypothesis
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Wulf Schiefenhövel,
                                    Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Handedness is associated with reproductive success in a
                                    non-industrial society
16:45 – 17:30           W. Schiefenhoevel & S. Eggebrecht: "Give the nice hand!" -
                                    Semantic categorisation of 'right' and 'left' in a sample of 
                                    Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages
17:30 – 18:30           General discussion, publication plans
18:30                          Dinner

Sunday, October 16, 2011

                                     Departure

[Translate to english:]

Thursday, October 13, 2011

18:00                        Public Lecture by Tecumseh Fitch:  “XXX”
                                   afterwards: Get-together and Dinner

Friday, October 14, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Welcome, introduction (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session I. Comparative (Chair: W. Schiefenhövel)
09:15 – 10:00           L. Marchant & W. C. McGrew: An ape’s view of handedness:
                                    consequence, correlation, or coincidence?
10:00 – 10:45           R. W. Byrne & C. Hobaiter: Lateral effects in the gestural
                                    communication of the wild chimpanzee
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00            J. T. Stock, T. Davies, L. Sarringhaus, C. N. Shaw: Whole forelimb
                                    skeletal asymmetry among modern humans and great apes:
                                    handedness and locomotion
12:00 – 12:45           N. Uomini: Prehistoric handedness: Archaeology and ethology
12:45                          Lunch
                                    Session II. Function (Chair: L. Marchant)
14:00 – 14:45           J. Lust, R. Geuze, A. Bouma, Ton G. G. Groothuis: Is there an
                                    advantage of lateralization in human (dual) task performance?
14:45 – 15:30           C. N. Shaw, C. L. Hoffman, J. S. Gottschall, J. T. Stock:
                                     Is ‘hand preference’ coded in the hominin skeleton? Using in-vivo 
                                     measurements of human bilateral asymmetry to understand
                                     Neanderthal behaviour
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45           W. T. Fitch - OR perhaps only Public Talk XXX:
                                    How lateralized are language and music, and why?
16:45 – 17:45           General Discussion
17:45 – 18:30           Finish
18:30                          Dinner

Saturday, October 15, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Introduction, announcements (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session III. Development (Chair: R. W. Byrne)
09:15 – 10:00           T. J. Crow: The protocadherin11xy gene-pair as determinant of
                                    cerebral asymmetry in modern Homo sapiens
10:00 – 10:45           C. McManus: What were the selection pressures for the genes for 
                                    handedness and language dominance?
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00           J. Fagard: A review on the emergence of structural and functional 
                                    asymmetries related to hand use and language in fœtus and infants
12:00 – 12:45           J. Tutkuviene & W. Schiefenhövel: Laterality (asymmetry) of handgrip
                                    strength: age and physical training related changes in Lithuanian boys,
                                    girls and conscripts
12:45 – 14:00           Lunch
                                    Session IV. Culture (Chair: W. C. McGrew)
14:00 – 14:45           H. J. Glock: The anthropological difference: a hands-on approach
14:45 – 15:30           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Health care hypothesis better predicts variation in percentages of
                                    left-handers than the fighting hypothesis
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Wulf Schiefenhövel,
                                    Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Handedness is associated with reproductive success in a
                                    non-industrial society
16:45 – 17:30           W. Schiefenhoevel & S. Eggebrecht: "Give the nice hand!" -
                                    Semantic categorisation of 'right' and 'left' in a sample of 
                                    Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages
17:30 – 18:30           General discussion, publication plans
18:30                          Dinner

Sunday, October 16, 2011

                                     Departure

[Translate to english:]

Thursday, October 13, 2011

18:00                        Public Lecture by Tecumseh Fitch:  “XXX”
                                   afterwards: Get-together and Dinner

Friday, October 14, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Welcome, introduction (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session I. Comparative (Chair: W. Schiefenhövel)
09:15 – 10:00           L. Marchant & W. C. McGrew: An ape’s view of handedness:
                                    consequence, correlation, or coincidence?
10:00 – 10:45           R. W. Byrne & C. Hobaiter: Lateral effects in the gestural
                                    communication of the wild chimpanzee
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00            J. T. Stock, T. Davies, L. Sarringhaus, C. N. Shaw: Whole forelimb
                                    skeletal asymmetry among modern humans and great apes:
                                    handedness and locomotion
12:00 – 12:45           N. Uomini: Prehistoric handedness: Archaeology and ethology
12:45                          Lunch
                                    Session II. Function (Chair: L. Marchant)
14:00 – 14:45           J. Lust, R. Geuze, A. Bouma, Ton G. G. Groothuis: Is there an
                                    advantage of lateralization in human (dual) task performance?
14:45 – 15:30           C. N. Shaw, C. L. Hoffman, J. S. Gottschall, J. T. Stock:
                                     Is ‘hand preference’ coded in the hominin skeleton? Using in-vivo 
                                     measurements of human bilateral asymmetry to understand
                                     Neanderthal behaviour
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45           W. T. Fitch - OR perhaps only Public Talk XXX:
                                    How lateralized are language and music, and why?
16:45 – 17:45           General Discussion
17:45 – 18:30           Finish
18:30                          Dinner

Saturday, October 15, 2011

09:00 – 09:15           Introduction, announcements (W. Schiefenhövel, W. C. McGrew)
                                    Session III. Development (Chair: R. W. Byrne)
09:15 – 10:00           T. J. Crow: The protocadherin11xy gene-pair as determinant of
                                    cerebral asymmetry in modern Homo sapiens
10:00 – 10:45           C. McManus: What were the selection pressures for the genes for 
                                    handedness and language dominance?
10:45 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00           J. Fagard: A review on the emergence of structural and functional 
                                    asymmetries related to hand use and language in fœtus and infants
12:00 – 12:45           J. Tutkuviene & W. Schiefenhövel: Laterality (asymmetry) of handgrip
                                    strength: age and physical training related changes in Lithuanian boys,
                                    girls and conscripts
12:45 – 14:00           Lunch
                                    Session IV. Culture (Chair: W. C. McGrew)
14:00 – 14:45           H. J. Glock: The anthropological difference: a hands-on approach
14:45 – 15:30           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Health care hypothesis better predicts variation in percentages of
                                    left-handers than the fighting hypothesis
15:30 – 16:00           Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45           Sara M. Schaafsma, Reint H. Geuze, Wulf Schiefenhövel,
                                    Ton G. G. Groothuis:
                                    Handedness is associated with reproductive success in a
                                    non-industrial society
16:45 – 17:30           W. Schiefenhoevel & S. Eggebrecht: "Give the nice hand!" -
                                    Semantic categorisation of 'right' and 'left' in a sample of 
                                    Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages
17:30 – 18:30           General discussion, publication plans
18:30                          Dinner

Sunday, October 16, 2011

                                     Departure