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会议， 进化 会议将汇集大量的 古生物学、气象学和人类学的学者 为了更好地了解它们之间的相互作用， 中新世、上新世和更新世的古气候以及主要的 灵长类动物，特别是人类的进化 将特别注意试图相互关联 古气候事件的最新日期， 在人类祖先中的进化意义。 希望它 将有可能解决，或至少明确， 关于早期人类系统发育状态的假说。

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.