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Dear all, I attach below details of a Royal Society discussion meeting that I hope will be of interest to members of this listserver. Apologies for any cross-posting. Cheers, Keith K.D. Bennett Professor i kvartärgeologi, Uppsala Universitet Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden E-mail: Keith.Bennett@geo.uu.se Phone: +46 18 471 2580 Fax: +46 18 55 5920 The evolutionary legacy of the Ice Ages Organised by Dr Katherine Willis, Professor Keith Bennett and Professor Donald Walker FRS Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 May 2003 Over the past five years there have been significant advances in both genetic and palaeoecological research on the ancestry of populations. The alternation of cold and warm stages during the Ice Ages has caused repeated geographic restriction and expansion of many organisms. The conference will examine the degree to which this may have affected the evolution of the organisms involved and their relationships, particularly the mechanisms and rates of changing selective processes. It will bring together geneticists, palaeoecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, taxonomists, archaeologists and biogeographers to contribute to an emerging synthesis on the evolutionary significance if the Ice Ages. Posters are invited for this Discussion Meeting. Those wishing to submit a poster should contact Suzi White on Suzi.white@royalsoc.ac.uk. Related Activities - Life and death of the woolly mammoth - Wednesday 21 May 2003 at 6.30pm, Professor Adrian Lister of University College London will take us through the mammoth's evolution and lifestyle; its influence on human art and culture ; and the contentious arguments for why it became extinct. The discussion meeting is free to attend, although pre-registration is essential. Those interested in attending should register online at www.royalsoc.ac.uk/events or contact Suzi White via the email address above. Welcome and introductory remarks by Mr Stephen Cox CVO, Executive Secretary of the Royal Society Session 1 Evolutionary and environmental background Chair Professor Keith Bennett 0945 Dr Katherine Willis University of Oxford The role of Quaternary environmental change in plant macroevolution - the exception or the rule? 1015 Discussion 1030 Tea 1100 Professor Elizabeth Vrba Yale University, New Haven, USA Environment and speciation: an old debate revisited and new palaeoclimatic and palaeozoological evidence 1130 Discussion 1140 Professor Godfrey Hewitt University of East Anglia Genetic consequences of climatic oscillations in the Quaternary 1210 Discussion 1220 Lunch Session 2 Evidence from the plant record Chair Professor Godfrey Hewitt 1400 Professor Joachim Kadereit Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Mainz, Germany Spatial pattern and temporal course of Quaternary plant diversification 1430 Discussion 1440 Professor Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Legacy of Quaternary Ice Ages in the neotropics: shaping Andean flora and vegetation 1510 Discussion 1520 Tea 1550 Professor Martin Lascoux Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Impact of the Ice Ages on the genetic structure of trees and shrubs 1620 Discussion 1630 Dr Gay McKinnon University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Glacial refugia and reticulate evolution: the case of the Tasmanian eucalypts 1700 Discussion 1710 Close Thursday 22 May 2002 Session 3 Evidence from the animal record Chair Professor Clive Gamble 0930 Professor Robert Zink Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, USA Tempo of avian evolution in the Pleistocene 1000 Discussion 1010 Professor Adrian Lister University College London Adaptive evolution in Quaternary mammals 1040 Discussion 1050 Tea 1120 Professor Alan Cooper University of Oxford Ancient DNA and Ice Age genetic effects on Holartic mammals 1150 Discussion 1200 Professor Russell Coope Royal Holloway, University of London Several million years of stability amongst insect species: in spite of or because of Ice Age climatic instability? 1230 Discussion 1240 Lunch Session 4 Impact of the Ice Ages on human evolution Chair Dr Katherine Willis 1400 Dr Peter Forster University of Cambridge The DNA Chronology of Prehistoric human dispersals 1430 Discussion 1440 Professor Clive Gamble University of Southampton Changing environments and evolving human diversity in Europe and the Near East in the Late Glacial 1510 Discussion Concluding discussion 1520 Professor Keith Bennett Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Continuing the debate on the role of Quaternary environmental change for macroevolution 1550 Discussion 1600 Close
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