Paleoclimate and Evolution: A Conference on Human Origins to be held Fall, 1992, at Airlie, Virginia

该奖项将有助于支持古气候和进化会议。 会议将汇集大量具有古生物学、气象学和人类学专业知识的学者，以便更好地了解中新世、上新世和更新世古气候之间的相互作用以及灵长类动物（特别是人科动物）进化的重大发展。 将特别关注将古气候事件的较新日期与人类祖先中具有进化意义的时期相互联系起来的尝试。 人们希望能够解决或至少使有关早期人类系统发育状况的相互矛盾的假设变得具体化。

This award will help to support a conference on Paleoclimate and Evolution. The conference will bring together a large number of scholars with paleontological, meteorological and anthropological expertise in order to better understand the interactions between paleoclimates in the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene and major developments in primate, specifically hominine, evolution. Particular attention will be given to attempts to inter-relate the newer dates for paleoclimatic events with periods of evolutionary significance in human ancestry. It is hoped that it will be possible to resolve, or at least crystallize, conflicting hypotheses about the phylogenetic status of earlier hominines.