The interdisciplinary "What Makes Us Human?" Conference is jointly sponsored by the Vision.org Foundation and the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.

CHICAGO _ Even before they are born, all people carry genetic baggage, genes that were useful to distant, non-human ancestors but are hopelessly outdated, even harmful, to humans as they live today.

Even before they are born, all people carry genetic baggage, genes that were useful to distant, non-human ancestors but are hopelessly outdated, even harmful, to humans as they live today.

By Bryn Nelson, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Feb. 7--The three models facing the throng of photographers were undeniably bony.

In 1970, Rudolph Zallinger, a former art teacher at Yale University, created one of the most enduring images of human evolution: a transforming sequence of primates moving from a small knuckle-walking ape to an upright, thoroughly modern-looking Cro- Magnon male.