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Biological Anthropology Seminar Series
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The Biological Anthropology Seminar Series hosts talks by international scholars in Biological Anthropology. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Dr Emma Pomeroy; Dr Mark Dyble; Lydia Clough; Imogen Badley. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 1 upcoming talk and 172 talks in the archive. Health and nutrition among the Maya
Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins
Reconstructing the hominin tree
Genetic adaptation to pathogens and the environment in humans and other primates
What can toothed whales teach us about the evolution of menopause?
Sagittal cresting among apes and capuchin monkeys: implications for understanding fossil hominins
Helminth parasites of humans: past, present and future
Are we the storytelling apes: great ape gesture and beyond
Intensive kinship and violence against women
Denisovans, Dragon Man and more
The FINDER Project: a (molecular) journey across Eurasia to identify new Denisovans
Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity
Bones of Contention: Piecing together the puzzle of fossil hominin long bones
New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas
The Evolution of Locomotion Through the Development Lens: Insights into the Morphology of the Human Talus and Calcaneus
Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation
The Water Insecurity Experiences Scales (wwwWISEscales.org): The Value of Globally Comparable Data on Water Access, Use, and Reliability.
Unpacking the Beauty Premium: A multidimensional and evolutionary exploration of the impact of physical attractiveness on social and economic outcomes
Darwinian fitness
The human pelvis and childbirth: reframing 'normality'
PhD and post-doc speed talks
Why be a monk?
Scribbles and archaeological pareidolia, or technaesthetic explorations? Considering Neanderthal material engagements
The myth of archaic introgression into humans: 3 more telling vignettes!
Human-wildlife cooperation: Honeyguides et al.
The links between primate socio-ecology, human-primate interactions, and microbial ecology: insights from macaques
Do Neandertal and Modern Human Neanderthal craniofacial differences reflect contrasting sexual selection for vocal pitch?
CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: A Great Ape Dictionary: now what?
The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations
CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Neanderthal Technaesthetics: Material Minds and Complex Cognition
CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES: Eugenics, and the Misuse of Mendel
Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology
The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerationsFor joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeuhrzsjE9A6AAjyZolY3T4c7dVV2FT7
The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolutionFor joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpce-grT4tG93AfVcXL_rbGWU2AlEpF84e
Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammalsFor joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldO2hqjstH9zpVafHVA5N3h7VJUeQ0Otd
Placental hormones and bacterias: partners in crime in the regulation of fetal growthFor joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdeqhqT0rG9ck3KEPeMuQIMHgFVbfnK9F
Biological diversity among modern human populationsFor joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ode6urzMqH9eGFEsF57KAtJyf4ISTTbFJ
Primate responses to death: insights into death awarenessFor joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcOirpjwjEtPISEaorcLGNQgd0PnfMGVI
The brain-bone connections shaping skeletal form and function: can we use bone structure to study neural development in human evolution?
Human Evolution at the Crossroads
TBC
The Goodness Paradox: How self-domestication contributes to explaining the uniquely human combination of good and evil.
BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations
Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling
Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort
Multiple burdens of malnutrition among Maya families in Yucatan and how language (Spanish vs Mayan) impact health outcomes
Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins
Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective
Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon
Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture
Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia
Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens
North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?
New approaches to modeling technological evolution
Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens
The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists
How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory
Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes
T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project
The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies
Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?
Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language
The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier
Title to be confirmed
Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition
The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons
Climate crises: their social, technological and demographic impact on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Angkor
T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project
Cultural evolution of kinship diversity: the micro and macro of talking about family
A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets
Past, present, and future of orangutan conservation
Is that really helping? Critical analysis of breastfeeding support in the UK from an evolutionary perspective
Evolution’s Bite: Dental evidence for the diets of our distant ancestors
Primate tourism: opportunities and challenges
Social support and breastfeeding in the UK: evolutionary perspectives and implications for public health
Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals
Anthropological engineering and hominin dietary ecology
Diagnosing diseases of childhood: a bioarchaeological and palaeopathological perspective
Anthropology, mass graves and the politics of the dead
Prehistoric cannibalism: why such a fuss?
Knowledge on wild plants in BaYaka hunter-gatherers and its implications on cultural evolution and health
The domestication of the seasons, a later critical stage in the transformation of cultivated plants
Beyond recognition: The application of biological anthropology to identification of the more recently deceased
Culture and the EEA: Origins of human social structure, cognition and language
The ecology and evolutionary origins of Australopithecus
What’s so social about primate sociability?
Morphological and palaeoecological perspectives on baboon evolution
Huns and Romans: relationships between pastoral and agricultural populations on the late Roman frontier
Deciphering the enamel and dental development in hominins. The importance of the Atapuerca dental remains
Stress and adaptation - a life history perspective using endurance sports
Is there anybody out there? Reconstructing large-scale prehistoric population dynamics and migration processes
The Most Rational People in the World
Evolutionary perspectives on maternal investment - from conception (or not) onward
Bawls, balls and brains: primate vocal communication and the evolution of speech
Aboriginal body shape and clothing, and the Tasmanian problem(s)
An ancient origin for contemporary chronic disease risk in South Asia?
Fishermen, fossils and flints: varied approaches to targeting and investigating submerged Palaeolithic archaeology in the North Sea
Primate stone tool use for paleoanthropologists
The Acheulean in East Africa: results of recent research
Recent Investigations into the Stone Age site of Isimila, Tanzania
The genetic history of Papua New Guinea: 50,000 years of independent human evolution
What lies beneath? How microtomography is providing new insights into systematics and functional morphology in the human fossil record
Communal breeding and life history trade-offs in Agta foragers
Can we infer patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data?
Renewed investigation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence from Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa
Brains growing on the tree of life. A phylogenetic approach to brain structure & function
The role of climate in shaping human demography and migrations during the out-of-Africa expansion
The functional significance of facial differences among recent hominins
The complex origins of modern humans and their diversity
Local adaptation in humans: lessons from modern and ancient genomes
The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens
Sequencing archaic human genomes
Neanderthal interbreeding: fact or fiction?
Cultural transmission of tool selection in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)
Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys
Kinship and sex-biased parental investment among the Mosuo of Southwest China
Behind every good man: women's production and reproduction in the Hadza hunter-gatherers
Studying culture in the laboratory in human and nonhuman primates
Postnatal ontogeny of the cranial base in modern humans and chimpanzees
Chronology of the earliest prehistoric settlements in Europe. When did Homo reach Europe?
Cross-talk between cultural and genetic evolution in humans
Towards the understanding of the genetic bases of complex adaptations in the human genome
Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication
Social evolution in human and non-human primates
Cultural transitions during the Iberomaurusian in Morocco
Legends of Facial Hollows - the science of inner space
Papuan pasts: genetic evidence so far
The Dawn of Technology: 3.3-million-year-old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana, Kenya
The origins of modern humans and Neandertals: the Atapuerca evidence
Homo naledi, a new homini species from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa
Con Co Ngua: a c. 4,500 BC Complex Hunter-Gatherer Site in Northern Vietnam
Mapping shared markers for a childhood liver disease across a Polynesian population
The Evolution of Exaggerated Sexual Swellings in Female Non-Human Primates
Cognitive development assessed by object manipulation in great apes and humans
Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees
The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective
Genetic Perspectives on Indigenous Ancestry in the Caribbean
Testosterone and Human Gender Development
Experimental Studies of Social Intelligence in Chimpanzees
Tool Use by Capuchin Monkeys in Sierra da Capivara National Park (Brazil)
A Look Inside Hominins: New Insight on the Hobbit (LB1), Broken Hill and La Ferrassie
Population Genetics of Greenlanders Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate
Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Human Pigmentation
Fitness Meets Fitness: The Evolution and Genetics of Evolutionary and Physical Fitness in Humans
Revisting the Savanna Hypothesis
Inferring a Deep Time Evolutionary Anatomical Context of Primates and Hominoids
Osteoarchaeology in India: Present and Future Perspective
Extreme pattern of genetic diversity in humans
Principles of Functional Craniology in Paleoneurology and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy
Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gatherer?
The Analysis of King Richard III
The Evolution of Culture
Division of labour in European Prehistory: New insights from human skeletal remains
Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns, personality traits, relationship status, and hormone
Great Apes at the Interface: Chimpanzee Flexibility in Dynamic Anthropogenic Habitats
Was the evolution of the modern human brain the result of social or environmental pressures?
The use of conservation drines for monitoring wildlife and its habitat
Terrible teens: an osteological investigation of adolescence and health in medieval England
The expensive brain: when does natural selection favor increased brain size?
Just how unique are humans anyway?
Language in deep time
Anthropological Engineering: The Interface of two Dissimilar Disciplines
Evidence for sedentism before the onset of agriculture during the Epipalaeolithic in Northwest Africa?
On the antiquity of speech and language: did the Neandertals talk and why would it matter?
Populations in statistical genetics: what are they, and how can we infer them from whole genome data?
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