The Botanic Age

Early hominins’ transition to bipedalism led to infant care challenges, prompting mothers to create botanical baby containers akin to slings. This innovation sparked new forms of mother-infant communication, setting the stage for advanced cognitive skills, including language and music, long before stone tools emerged in the Stone Age.
Dr. Dean Falk is an evolutionary anthropologist, the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology, and a Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.

Cosponsored by The Leakey Foundation.

Distinguished Lectures at HMNS are supported by Apache Corporation.