Evolution and variation in Pleistocene Homo
Karen Baab, Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University
Dr. Baab is a paleoanthropologist whose research addresses important questions about human evolution during the Pleistocene. Her scholarship touches on classification and evolutionary relationships among the many extinct species in our own genus, Homo, and how populations evolved across the vast geographic landscape of Homo erectus between 1.9 and 0.1 Ma. Dr. Baab's research talk will focus on the systematics, paleobiology and evolutionary history of extinct Homo species, and how digital approaches to the human fossil record have transformed and enriched the study of human evolution.