LCHES Seminars on Human Evolution


2009-10-28 17:00: Expression of happiness and sadness in human and chimpanzee infants (Prof. Kim Bard (Psychology, Portsmouth University))

2010-01-29 16:00: Mitochondrial genome variation: a female perspective in human evolution (Professor Antonio Torroni, University of Pavia, Italy, Department of Genetics and Microbiology)

2010-02-03 17:00: Innovative behaviour in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa – implications for modern human evolution. (Professor John Parkington, University of Cape Town)

2010-02-17 17:00: Exploring early hominin subsistence behaviour with agent-based modelling (Professor Jeanne Sept, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University)

2010-02-25 13:15: Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo (Professor Eske Willerslev, Natural History Museum of Denmark and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen)

2010-10-16 09:00: Annual African Archaeology Research Day (various speakers)

2010-10-20 17:00: Language diversification under contact (Michael Dunn, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

2010-10-27 17:00: The Gorilla Genome Project and some insights into the speciation of the great apesThe Gorilla Genome Project and some insights into the speciation of the great apes (Alwyn Scally, Sanger Institute)

2010-11-03 17:00: Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel and Mode 2.5? Technological diversity in the eastern Mediterranean from MIS 7-11 (Mary Stiner and Steve Kuhn, University of Arizona, Tucson)

2010-11-04 17:00: Hominine origins in Europe:  encephalization and orthogrady. (University of Toronto)

2010-11-17 17:00: War in chimpanzees, hunter-gatherers and complex societies (Richard Wrangham, Harvard University)

2010-11-24 17:00: Later human evolution in eastern Africa: recent research at Lake Turkana, Kenya (Marta Mirazón Lahr, LCHES, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-26 17:00: Endogenous and exogenous causes of demographic and evolutionary change in human history and prehistory (J. Richerson - Distinguished Professor Emeritus - University of California Davis)

2011-02-17 17:00:  Understanding of evolution may be improved by thinking about people (Daniel Nettle, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle)

2011-02-24 17:00: The evolution of male control of resources: an archaeological case study (Clive Gamble,  Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2011-04-27 17:00: Hunter-gatherer societies in the Basque crossroads: current issues (Dr. Álvaro Arrizabalaga, Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología Universidad del País Vasco)

2011-05-12 16:00: The origins of society (Tim Clutton-Brock, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)