Round Table Where are we from? The cradles of humanity

Round Table with : 

• Ron Clarke, university du Witwatersrand ; 
• André Langaney, university of  Genève ; 
• Jean-Jacques Hublin, Institute Max Plank de Leipzig ; 
• Jose Braga, university of Toulouse (Paul Sabatier) and university of Witwatersrand, South Africa

The diversity of the animal world, and later that of humans and their cultures, formed the source of his scientific interest and questions. Having studied both mathematics and biology, he was fortunate enough to participate, from his very first professional forays, in the adventure of bringing computer science into biology. The resulting branch made suddenly possible a multitude of research endeavours in population genetics and biometrics.

Applying these methods to the diversity and history of human populations has totally reversed the paradigms of “physical” anthropology by demonstrating the recent common origin of all current human populations, the genetic and biometric inconsistency of racial classifications, and such considerable heterogeneity in all populations that “typological” modelling becomes wholly inadequate.