Workshop
“Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives”
Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre
Santorini, Greece
(May 14-18, 2001)
Sunday, May 13
7p:
Reception—overlooking caldera
Monday, May 14
8:00a
Introductory Remarks
James Carey
Shripad Tuljapurkar
Part I. Life Span as a Concept—Moderator: Richard Suzman
8:30a:
How and why a species’ life span evolves
9:10a
Discussion
9:30a
The biodemographic relevance of maximum life span
10:10a
Discussion
10:30a
BREAK
11:00a
Longevity and the proportional life cycle
11:40a
Discussion
12:00
General Discussion
1:00p
AFTERNOON BREAK
5:00p
Life span: a demographer’s perspective
5:40p
Discussion
6:00p
Life course, environmental change and life span
6:40p
Discussion
7:00p
General Discussion
Steven Orzack
Jay Olshansky
Ronald Lee &
Joshua Goldstein
Richard Suzman
James Vaupel
Jean-Marie Robine
Tuesday, May 15
Part II. Life Span as a Life History Component —Moderator: Ethyl Churchill
8:30a:
The evolutionary ecology of life span: lessons from
the rockfish
9:10a
Discussion
Marc Mangel
2
9:30a
What shapes individual heterogeneities in life span
and reproductive output in ungulates?
10:10a
Discussion
10:30a
BREAK
11:00a
Life span in Drosophila: ecology and evolution;
form and physiology
11:40a
Discussion
12:00
General Discussion
1:00p
AFTERNOON BREAK
5:00p
Why do birds live so long?
5:40p
Discussion
6:00p
Life span as a component of avian life histories
6:40p
Discussion
7:00p
General Discussion
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Larry Harshman
Joshua Goldstein
Linda Partridge
Robert Ricklefs
Shripad Tuljapurkar
Wednesday, May 16
Part III. Life Span as a Life History Component (continued)—Moderator: Rose Li
8:30a:
Interspecies differences in the lifespan distribution
9:10a
Discussion
9:30a
Theories of life span: coevolution, variation and
optimality
10:10a
Discussion
10:30a
BREAK
11:00a
Social complexity and longevity in mammals
11:40a
Discussion
12:00
General Discussion
1:00p
AFTERNOON BREAK
7:00p
Festive Evening (cruise with dinner)
Shiro Horiuchi
Shripad Tuljapurkar
Debra Judge
Anatoli Yashin
Thursday, May 17
Part III. The Human Life Span (Moderator: Paul Demeny)
8:30a:
Intelligence, longevity and the emergence of humans
9:10a
Discussion
Hillard Kaplan
3
9:30a
Maximum life span in human populations
10:10a
Discussion
10:30a
BREAK
11:00a
The world trend in maximum life span
11:40a
Discussion
12:00
General Discussion
1:00p
AFTERNOON BREAK
5:00p
Evolved human life spans: analogies or models
5:40p
Discussion
6:00p
Framing the future of human life span in
6:40p
Discussion
7:00p
General Discussion
Jean-Marie Robine
John Wilmoth
Paul Demeny
Kenneth Wachter
James Carey
Hillard Kaplan
Friday, May 18
Epilogue: An Agenda for Life Span Research
8:30a:
Research on the demography of life span
John Wilmoth
Jean-Marie Robine
9:30a
Research on the biology of life span
Robert Ricklefs
Marc Mangel
10:30a
Break
11:00a
Overview and synopsis: new directions
12:00 noon
WORKSHOP ENDS
Shripad Tuljapurkar
James Carey
Table 1. List of speakers, other participants and paper titles for Santorini, Greece life span workshop (May 14-18, 2001).
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Name (Affiliation)
Title of Paper
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1. Carey, James R. (UC Davis)
"Framing the future of human life span"
2. Churchill, Ethyl (Pop. Council, New York)
Moderator
3. Demeny, Paul (Pop. Council; New York)
Moderator
4. Gaillard, Jean-Michel (U. Claude Bernard, France) "What shapes individual heterogeneities in life span & reproductive output
of ungulates? A comparative analysis from selected case studies."
5. Goldstein, Joshua (Princeton)
"Longevity and the proportional life cycle" (with Ron Lee)
6. Goldwasser, Lloyd (Berkeley)
Attendee
7. Harshman, Larry (Univ. Nebraska)
“Life span in Drosophila: ecology and evolution; form and physiology
8. Horiuchi, Shiro (Rockefeller Univ.)
"Interspecies differences in the lifespan distribution”
9. Judge, Debra (UC Davis)
"Social complexity and longevity in mammals."
10. Kaplan, Hilliard (Univ. New Mexico)
"Intelligence, longevity, and the emergence of humans"
11. Koulousis, Nikos (Thessaloniki)
Attendee
12. Lee, Ronald (UC Berkeley)
"Longevity and the proportional life cycle" (with Joshua Goldstein)
13. Mangel, Marc (UC Santa Cruz)
"The evolutionary ecology of lifespan: lessons from the Rockfish"
14. Olshansky, Jay (Univ. Chicago)
"The biodemographic relevance of maximum life span."
15. Orzack, Steven (Fresh Pond Inst., Cambridge)
“How and why a species’ life span evolves”
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Table 1 (continued)
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Name:
Title of Paper
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16. Partridge, Linda (Univ. College London)
"Why do birds live so long?"
17. Papodopoulos, Nikos (Thessaloniki)
Attendee
18. Ricklefs, Robert (Univ. Missouri)
"Life span as a component of avian life histories."
19. Robine, Jean-Marie (INSERM; France)
"Maximum life span in human populations"
"Life course, environmental change and life span."
20. Suzman, Richard (NIA)
Moderator
21. Tuljapukar, Shripad (Stanford)
"Theories of lifespan: coevolution, variation, and optimality."
22. Wachter, Kenneth (UC Berkeley)
"Evolved human life spans: analogies or models"
23. Wilmoth, John (UC Berkeley)
"The world trend in maximum life span."
24. Vaupel, James (Max Planck, Rostock)
"Life span: a demographer's perspective"
25. Yashine, Anatoli (Max Planck, Rostock)
Moderator
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