It was a lively and interesting meeting, with Biological Anthropology popping up in many sessions. BAS awarded Student Poster Prizes, and split the award between two excellent posters. Prof. Howells is a past president of the American Anthropological Association and a distinguished scholar who has published several landmark books in physical anthropology. Nominations for significant books are accepted on a continuous basis. Those interested in nominating a candidate for the Howells Prize are encouraged to do so.
Nominations are by letter, and ideally include examples of reviews or other supportive information.
Jacob suggested that recycling of pre-existing material, rather than the design of new players, was a source of molecular and regulatory innovations. By sequencing genomes, we can now contemplate the result of evolutionary tinkering and realize how important it has been in producing evolutionary novelties. For those who teach evolution and are at pains to see the connection between it and the rest of anthropology -there's a good one.