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THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR HUMAN BIOLOGY The second annual conference of the Australasian Society for Human Biology took as its theme the growing scope of human biology. Held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 27-30 November 1988 the conference was attended by over 200 participants, and there were more than 70 contributors to the six symposia, the scientific papers and a poster session. Following an inaugural lecture by Professor B. A. Wood on "Relatives, ancestors, molecules and sex" the six symposia were devoted to human origins, recent advances, the Australian aborigines, hard tissue biology, human biology in medicine, and human biology in social issues. The papers in the symposia were highly stimulating, for example those on Spare parts biology, New brains for old, and Man’s response to the abuse of substances. Professor G. C. Bolton’s address, on Perspectives in human biology, marked the inauguration of the new publication (the Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Human Biology), while that on An aboriginal perspective, given in the symposium on the aborigines by Mr. K. D. Colbung, Chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, drew attention to the importance of this view of human studies that is too little recognised. It is planned to publish the papers in the second number of the proceedings of the Australasian Society for Human Biology. | ||||||