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[1MS-05]【E】What shapes us human? Understanding human evolution through genes, bodies, and culture

Wed. Dec 3, 2025 11:15 AM - 12:35 PM JST
Wed. Dec 3, 2025 2:15 AM - 3:35 AM UTC
Room 5(Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center 3F, 304)
Organizer: Tadashi Nomura (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Hiromi Matsumae (Tokai University )
How did the unique genetic, anatomical, and cultural traits of Homo sapiens evolve? With the progress of human genome projects, our understanding of human evolution has reached a turning point. This symposium will comprehensively examine human evolution from multiple perspectives, including genetics, development, and culture (language). Through lectures by international researchers, including genome biologists, anatomists, and embryologists, we will discuss "What are humans?"
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM JST(2:15 AM - 2:35 AM UTC)

[1MS-05-01]Archaic and modern human-specific coding variants underlying human anatomical evolution and disease

○Tadashi Nomura1,2 (1. Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2. Center for Social and BioMedical Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology)
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11:35 AM - 11:55 AM JST(2:35 AM - 2:55 AM UTC)

[1MS-05-02]Tale of the Tail: Evolutionary and Developmental Paths to Becoming Human — An Invitation to “Shippology”

○Sayaka Tojima1 (1. Kyoto Institute of Technology)
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11:55 AM - 12:15 PM JST(2:55 AM - 3:15 AM UTC)

[1MS-05-03]Exploring human uniqueness through multimodal analysis of genomes and culture

○Hiromi Matsumae1 (1. Tokai University School of Medicine)
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12:15 PM - 12:35 PM JST(3:15 AM - 3:35 AM UTC)

[1MS-05-04]The Human conditions: Insights from “paleo-cognomics”

○Cedric Boeckx1 (1. ICREA/Universitat de Barcelona)
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