Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals

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Dr Habiba Chirchir.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Placental hormones and bacterias: partners in crime in the regulation of fetal growth

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Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Biological diversity among modern human populations

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Dr Fernando Rozzi.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

Rihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon

Laure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBA

Ines Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

Aylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

Professor Chris Stringer (NHM).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?

Professor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Professor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

Dr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

Dr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory 

Dr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes

Dr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

Dr. Susana Carvalho.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Josephine Joordens.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies

Professor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?

Dr. Kit Opie (Bristol).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language

Dr. Jerome Lewis (UCL).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier

Tina Lasisi (Penn State) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Jason Hodgson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition

Professor Jonathan Birch (LSE).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons

Annemieke Milks (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Climate crises: their social, technological and demographic impact on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Angkor

Charles Higham (University of Otago).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

Susana Carvalho (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cultural evolution of kinship diversity: the micro and macro of talking about family

Fiona Jordan (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets

Amanda Henry (Leiden University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

To be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Past, present, and future of orangutan conservation

Serge Wich (Liverpool John Moores University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Is that really helping? Critical analysis of breastfeeding support in the UK from an evolutionary perspective

Emily Emmott (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolution’s Bite: Dental evidence for the diets of our distant ancestors

Peter S. Ungar (University of Arkansas).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate tourism: opportunities and challenges

Laetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social support and breastfeeding in the UK: evolutionary perspectives and implications for public health

Emily Emmott (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals

Mateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropological engineering and hominin dietary ecology

Michael Berthaume (Imperial College).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Diagnosing diseases of childhood: a bioarchaeological and palaeopathological perspective

Carolyn Rando (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropology, mass graves and the politics of the dead

Constantine Eliopoulos (Liverpool John Moores University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Prehistoric cannibalism: why such a fuss?

Silvia Bello (Natural History Museum).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Knowledge on wild plants in BaYaka hunter-gatherers and its implications on cultural evolution and health

Gul Deniz Salali (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The domestication of the seasons, a later critical stage in the transformation of cultivated plants

Professor Martin Jones (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Beyond recognition: The application of biological anthropology to identification of the more recently deceased

Heather Bonney (Natural History Museum).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Culture and the EEA: Origins of human social structure, cognition and language

Lucio Vinicius (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The ecology and evolutionary origins of Australopithecus

René Bobe (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What’s so social about primate sociability?

Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Morphological and palaeoecological perspectives on baboon evolution

Sarah Elton (Durham University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Huns and Romans: relationships between pastoral and agricultural populations on the late Roman frontier

Susanne Hakenbeck (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Is there anybody out there? Reconstructing large-scale prehistoric population dynamics and migration processes

Isabell Schmidt (University of Cologne).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolutionary perspectives on maternal investment - from conception (or not) onward

Sarah Myers (University of Kent).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Fishermen, fossils and flints: varied approaches to targeting and investigating submerged Palaeolithic archaeology in the North Sea

Rachel Bynoe (Natural History Museum, London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Acheulean in East Africa: results of recent research

Ignacio de la Torre (Institute of Archaeology, University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The genetic history of Papua New Guinea: 50,000 years of independent human evolution

Chris Tyler-Smith (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communal breeding and life history trade-offs in Agta foragers

Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Renewed investigation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence from Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa

Jason E. Lewis (Turkana Basin Institute & Stony Brook University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The role of climate in shaping human demography and migrations during the out-of-Africa expansion

Dr. Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The functional significance of facial differences among recent hominins

Prof Dr Paul O'Higgins, Centre for Anatomical & Human Sciences, Department of Archaeology and Hull York Medical School, University of York.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The complex origins of modern humans and their diversity

Dr Marta Mirazón Lahr, LCHES, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens

Prof Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, London.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sequencing archaic human genomes

Dr Matthias Meyer, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Neanderthal interbreeding: fact or fiction?

Prof Bill Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys

Dr Erica van de Waal, University of Zurich.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Studying culture in the laboratory in human and nonhuman primates

Prof Christine Anna Caldwell, University of Stirling.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Chronology of the earliest prehistoric settlements in Europe. When did Homo reach Europe?

Dr. Christophe Falguères, CNRS - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Towards the understanding of the genetic bases of complex adaptations in the human genome

Prof Jaume Bertanpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social evolution in human and non-human primates

Dr Kit Opie, University College London.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Legends of Facial Hollows - the science of inner space

Dr Todd C. Rae, University of Roehampton.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Dawn of Technology: 3.3-million-year-old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana, Kenya

Prof Sonia Harmand, Stony Brook University, New York.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The origins of modern humans and Neandertals: the Atapuerca evidence

Prof Juan Luis Arsuaga, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Friday 09 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Exaggerated Sexual Swellings in Female Non-Human Primates

Gillian Brown and Sally Street (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

Dr. Cat Hobaiter (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic Perspectives on Indigenous Ancestry in the Caribbean

Dr. Jada Benn Torres (Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA)..

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Monday 27 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Experimental Studies of Social Intelligence in Chimpanzees

Prof Satoshi Hirata (Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Japan).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

A Look Inside Hominins: New Insight on the Hobbit (LB1), Broken Hill and La Ferrassie

Dr. Antoine Balzeau (CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7194).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Human Pigmentation

Dr. Sandra Beleza (Department of Genetics, University of Leicester).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisting the Savanna Hypothesis

Prof Julia Lee-Thorp (Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Osteoarchaeology in India: Present and Future Perspective

Dr Veena Mushrif-Tripathy (Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, India).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Principles of Functional Craniology in Paleoneurology and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

Dr. Emiliano Bruner (CNIEH, Burgos, Spain).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Analysis of King Richard III

Dr Piers Mitchell (Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Friday 07 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Division of labour in European Prehistory: New insights from human skeletal remains

Dr. Sébastien Villotte (PACEA, CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Ebola!

Peter D. Walsh, Division of Biological Anthropology.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:30-17:30