The Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Lecture 2024: Dr Habiba Chirchir (Marshall University) What we know and don't know yet about skeletal gracility in modern humans

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• Dr Habiba Chirchir (Marshall University)
• Wednesday 28 February 2024, 17:00-18:00
• Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

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Skeletal gracility is the reduction in the strength and relative bone mass as inferred from bone tissue and overall bone size. In contrast to our hominin ancestors, the recent modern human skeleton is unusually gracile. In this lecture, I will examine the evidence supporting the recent emergence of gracile morphology, explore the variations in this morphology among recent human groups, and discuss the various hypotheses that have been proposed to explain this phenomenon through a comparative analysis of extinct and extant mammalian species including hominin ancestors from the deep past, reaching as far back as ~ 2 million years ago.

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This talk is part of the Department of Archaeology - Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series series.

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