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Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mothers, Minds, and Matrilines

UserDr Molly Fox, UCLA.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

From known to unknown? Investigating Pleistocene landscapes at Happisburgh

UserDr Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Health and nutrition among the Maya

UserDr Ines Varela-Silva, Loughborough University.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins

UserProf David Begun, University of Toronto.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Reconstructing the hominin tree

UserDr Suzy White, University of Reading.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic adaptation to pathogens and the environment in humans and other primates

UserDr Aida Andres, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What can toothed whales teach us about the evolution of menopause?

UserDr Sam Ellis, University of Exeter.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sagittal cresting among apes and capuchin monkeys: implications for understanding fossil hominins

UserDr Katharine Balolia (Australian National University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Helminth parasites of humans: past, present and future

UserDr Thomas Crellen (University of Glasgow).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Are we the storytelling apes: great ape gesture and beyond

UserProf Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Intensive kinship and violence against women

UserDr Olympia Campbell .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Denisovans, Dragon Man and more

UserProf Chris Stringer.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The FINDER Project: a (molecular) journey across Eurasia to identify new Denisovans

UserDr Katerina Douka, University of Vienna.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 10:00-11:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity

UserDr Adam Hunt (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Bones of Contention: Piecing together the puzzle of fossil hominin long bones

UserDr Julia Aramendi (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas

UserDr Jake Funkhouser (University of Zurich) .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Locomotion Through the Development Lens: Insights into the Morphology of the Human Talus and Calcaneus

UserDr Carla Figus (University of Bologna) .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation

UserDr Valeria Amoretti (Archaeological Park of Pompeii).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Water Insecurity Experiences Scales (wwwWISEscales.org): The Value of Globally Comparable Data on Water Access, Use, and Reliability.

UserDr Sera Young (Northwestern University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unpacking the Beauty Premium: A multidimensional and evolutionary exploration of the impact of physical attractiveness on social and economic outcomes

UserDr Jeanne Bovet (Northumbria University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Darwinian fitness

UserProf Lloyd Demetrius (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The human pelvis and childbirth: reframing 'normality'

UserDr Lia Betti (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

PhD and post-doc speed talks

UserVarious.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Why be a monk?

UserProf Ruth Mace, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Scribbles and archaeological pareidolia, or technaesthetic explorations? Considering Neanderthal material engagements

UserDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, University of Liverpool.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The myth of archaic introgression into humans: 3 more telling vignettes!

UserProf William Amos, Dept of Zoology, Univ of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human-wildlife cooperation: Honeyguides et al.

UserDr Dominic Cram, University of Cambridge (Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The links between primate socio-ecology, human-primate interactions, and microbial ecology: insights from macaques

UserDr Krishna Balasubramaniam, Anglia Ruskin University .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Do Neandertal and Modern Human Neanderthal craniofacial differences reflect contrasting sexual selection for vocal pitch?

UserProfessor Stanley Ambrose ( University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: A Great Ape Dictionary: now what?

UserDr Cat Hobaiter, Wild Minds Lab, University of St Andrews.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

UserDr Vanessa Campanacho, BioantTalks.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdOGrqDwtH9DwT4Tba-QxoyFA2Z8eMLuC.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Neanderthal Technaesthetics: Material Minds and Complex Cognition

UserDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdO-vrT8sGdEYFuLdBRtsAQ9Cc4OWPlad.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines

UserProfessor Marc F Oxenham, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland and School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsduigrTwtEtMPh6m9S7OnOef5SaPcSYOn.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES: Eugenics, and the Misuse of Mendel

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qsqzMuH9Tk68gRcyOhzhF_Tae1s9_G.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology

UserDiamond Light Source  .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom - https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOuvrDsvGNNzMF5svFLoXHVu2MGHcTMr.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeuhrzsjE9A6AAjyZolY3T4c7dVV2FT7

UserDr Vanessa Campanacho.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolution

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpce-grT4tG93AfVcXL_rbGWU2AlEpF84e

UserDr Leslea Hlusko.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldO2hqjstH9zpVafHVA5N3h7VJUeQ0Otd

UserDr Habiba Chirchir.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdeqhqT0rG9ck3KEPeMuQIMHgFVbfnK9F

UserDr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Biological diversity among modern human populations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ode6urzMqH9eGFEsF57KAtJyf4ISTTbFJ

UserDr Fernando Rozzi.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcOirpjwjEtPISEaorcLGNQgd0PnfMGVI

UserDr Alecia Carter, University College London .

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

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The brain-bone connections shaping skeletal form and function: can we use bone structure to study neural development in human evolution?

UserDr Jaap Saers, University of Cambridge.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Evolution at the Crossroads

UserProfessor Katerina Harvati.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBC

UserProfessor James O’Connell and Professor Kristen Hawkes.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Goodness Paradox: How self-domestication contributes to explaining the uniquely human combination of good and evil.

UserProfessor Richard Wrangham.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here using link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling

UserDr Ashleigh Wiseman (Royal Veterinary College).

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/2Gcbbou.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3n5e7E8.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Multiple burdens of malnutrition among Maya families in Yucatan and how language (Spanish vs Mayan) impact health outcomes

UserDr Inês Varela-Silva (University of Loughborough), with Hugo Azcorra, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Sabine Little.

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/349mHZG.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins

UserStephanie King (University of Bristol).

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3ncLK75.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

UserRihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserLaure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBA

UserInes Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

UserAylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

UserProfessor Chris Stringer (NHM).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

UserProfessor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserProfessor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

UserDr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserProfessor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

UserDr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

UserDr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserDr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes

UserDr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova.

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserDr. Susana Carvalho.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Josephine Joordens.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies

UserProfessor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Erik Gjesfjeld.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserDr. Kit Opie (Bristol).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language

UserDr. Jerome Lewis (UCL).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier

UserTina Lasisi (Penn State) .

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Jason Hodgson (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition

UserProfessor Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons

UserAnnemieke Milks (University College London).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserCharles Higham (University of Otago).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserSusana Carvalho (University of Oxford).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserFiona Jordan (University of Bristol).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets

UserAmanda Henry (Leiden University).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserTo be confirmed.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Past, present, and future of orangutan conservation

UserSerge Wich (Liverpool John Moores University).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserEmily Emmott (University College London).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserPeter S. Ungar (University of Arkansas).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate tourism: opportunities and challenges

UserLaetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserEmily Emmott (University College London).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals

UserMateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropological engineering and hominin dietary ecology

UserMichael Berthaume (Imperial College).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Diagnosing diseases of childhood: a bioarchaeological and palaeopathological perspective

UserCarolyn Rando (University College London).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropology, mass graves and the politics of the dead

UserConstantine Eliopoulos (Liverpool John Moores University).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Prehistoric cannibalism: why such a fuss?

UserSilvia Bello (Natural History Museum).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserGul Deniz Salali (University College London).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserProfessor Martin Jones (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserHeather Bonney (Natural History Museum).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserLucio Vinicius (University College London).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The ecology and evolutionary origins of Australopithecus

UserRené Bobe (University of Oxford).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What’s so social about primate sociability?

UserRobin Dunbar (University of Oxford).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Morphological and palaeoecological perspectives on baboon evolution

UserSarah Elton (Durham University).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserSusanne Hakenbeck (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Deciphering the enamel and dental development in hominins. The importance of the Atapuerca dental remains

UserMario Modesta Mata (CENIEH, Burgos).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Stress and adaptation - a life history perspective using endurance sports

UserDaniel Longman (University of Cambridge).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserIsabell Schmidt (University of Cologne).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Most Rational People in the World

UserJames Holland Jones (Stanford University & Imperial College).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserSarah Myers (University of Kent).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Bawls, balls and brains: primate vocal communication and the evolution of speech

UserJacob Dunn (Anglia Ruskin University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Aboriginal body shape and clothing, and the Tasmanian problem(s)

UserIan Gilligan (Department of Archaeology, University of Sidney).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

An ancient origin for contemporary chronic disease risk in South Asia?

UserEmma Pomeroy (Liverpool John Moores University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 15 March 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

UserRachel Bynoe (Natural History Museum, London).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate stone tool use for paleoanthropologists

UserMichael Haslam (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Acheulean in East Africa: results of recent research

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Recent Investigations into the Stone Age site of Isimila, Tanzania

UserJames Cole (University of Brighton).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What lies beneath? How microtomography is providing new insights into systematics and functional morphology in the human fossil record

UserMatthew Skinner (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communal breeding and life history trade-offs in Agta foragers

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Can we infer patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data?

UserEnrico Crema (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 18 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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Brains growing on the tree of life. A phylogenetic approach to brain structure & function

UserProf Dr Robert A. Barton, Institute of Advanced Study (Social Science & Health) & Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, Durham University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 30 November 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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The functional significance of facial differences among recent hominins

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The complex origins of modern humans and their diversity

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Local adaptation in humans: lessons from modern and ancient genomes

UserDr Aida Andrés, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens

UserProf Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, London.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sequencing archaic human genomes

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Neanderthal interbreeding: fact or fiction?

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cultural transmission of tool selection in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)

UserDr Lydia Luncz, University of Oxford.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys

UserDr Erica van de Waal, University of Zurich.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Kinship and sex-biased parental investment among the Mosuo of Southwest China

UserDr Siobhán M. Mattison, University of New MExico.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Behind every good man: women's production and reproduction in the Hadza hunter-gatherers

UserDr. Colette Berbesque.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Studying culture in the laboratory in human and nonhuman primates

UserProf Christine Anna Caldwell, University of Stirling.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Postnatal ontogeny of the cranial base in modern humans and chimpanzees

UserDr. Sandra Martelli, University College London.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cultural and genetic evolution in humans

UserProf Evelyne Heyer, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserProf Jaume Bertanpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication

UserProf Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social evolution in human and non-human primates

UserDr Kit Opie, University College London.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cultural transitions during the Iberomaurusian in Morocco

UserDr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum London.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Legends of Facial Hollows - the science of inner space

UserDr Todd C. Rae, University of Roehampton.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Papuan pasts: genetic evidence so far

UserDr Robert Attenborough, University of Cambridge.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

UserProf Sonia Harmand, Stony Brook University, New York.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The origins of modern humans and Neandertals: the Atapuerca evidence

UserProf Juan Luis Arsuaga, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo naledi, a new homini species from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

UserProf. John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockMonday 21 September 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Con Co Ngua: a c. 4,500 BC Complex Hunter-Gatherer Site in Northern Vietnam

UserDr Marc Oxenham and Anna Willis, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockFriday 18 September 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mapping shared markers for a childhood liver disease across a Polynesian population

UserSophia Cameron-Christie, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cognitive development assessed by object manipulation in great apes and humans

UserDr. Misato Hayashi (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective

UserDr. Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAMPEA - UMR 7269, France).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic Perspectives on Indigenous Ancestry in the Caribbean

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Testosterone and Human Gender Development

UserProf Melissa Hine (Hormones and Behaviour Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Experimental Studies of Social Intelligence in Chimpanzees

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Tool Use by Capuchin Monkeys in Sierra da Capivara National Park (Brazil)

UserDr. Tiago Falotico (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Population Genetics of Greenlanders Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate

UserDr. Matteo Fumagalli (University College of London Genetics Institute, Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Human Pigmentation

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Fitness Meets Fitness: The Evolution and Genetics of Evolutionary and Physical Fitness in Humans

UserDr. Erik Postma (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisting the Savanna Hypothesis

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Inferring a Deep Time Evolutionary Anatomical Context of Primates and Hominoids

UserDr. Jeroen Smaers (Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Osteoarchaeology in India: Present and Future Perspective

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Extreme pattern of genetic diversity in humans

UserDr. Vincenza Colonna (Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Principles of Functional Craniology in Paleoneurology and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gatherer?

UserDr Simon Underdown (Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University ).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Analysis of King Richard III

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Culture

UserProf Kevin N. Laland (School of Biology, University of St Andrews).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Ebola!

User Peter D. Walsh, Division of Biological Anthropology.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns, personality traits, relationship status, and hormone

UserProf Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Great Apes at the Interface: Chimpanzee Flexibility in Dynamic Anthropogenic Habitats

UserDr Kimberly Hockings, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Was the evolution of the modern human brain the result of social or environmental pressures?

UserDr Susanne Shultz.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The use of conservation drines for monitoring wildlife and its habitat

UserProf Serge Wich, Liverpool John Moores University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Terrible teens: an osteological investigation of adolescence and health in medieval England

UserDr Mary Lewis, University of Reading.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The expensive brain: when does natural selection favor increased brain size?

UserProf Carel van Schaik, University of Zurich.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Just how unique are humans anyway?

UserProf Alice Roberts, University of Birmingham.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Language in deep time

UserProf Klaus Zuberbuhler, St Andrews & Neuchatel.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropological Engineering: The Interface of two Dissimilar Disciplines

UserDr Michael Berthaume, University of Massachusetts.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evidence for sedentism before the onset of agriculture during the Epipalaeolithic in Northwest Africa?

UserDr Isabel de Groote, Liverpool John Moores University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

On the antiquity of speech and language: did the Neandertals talk and why would it matter?

UserDr Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Populations in statistical genetics: what are they, and how can we infer them from whole genome data?

UserDr Dan Lawson ().

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

Biological Invasions in Human Evolution: Hominin Impacts on the Pleistocene World?

UserMike Petraglia, Oxford University.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

What can deer tell us about the origins of our voice?

UserDavid Reby, University of Sussex.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

How a shift in social identity made enormous societies possible: An overlooked turning point in human evolution

UserMark Moffett, National Geographic.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

Brown adipose tissue and its role in energy balance through the life cycle

UserMichael Symonds, Nottingham University.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

Monkey Lithics: Experimental Archaeology of Japanese Macaque Stone Handling

UserProfessor Bill McGrew.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

Impact of rapid changes in added sugar intake in rural South Africa

UserBarrie Margetts, University of Southampton.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

Causes of lethal aggression in chimpanzees

UserMike Wilson, University of Minnessotta.

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2013

Monkey see, which monkey do? Personality, information use and social learning in a wild primate

UserAlecia Carter (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, Room 41, Pembroke Street..

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Modern models of Neolithic life. Fieldwork (1974 - 2012) among the Eipo, Highlands of Papua Province (West-New Guinea, Indonesia)

UserProf. Wulf Schiefenhoevel.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

The upper paleolithic of the Middle Danube region: Modern human dispersal or local evolution?

UserDr Philip R Nigst (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Patterns of stone tool use in Burmese long-tailed macaques

UserDr Michael Gumert .

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Ecology of Pliocene hominins in eastern Africa.

UserRene Bobe, George Washington University.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Costs and benefits of mate choice in grey mouse lemurs

UserElise Huchard (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Living on the edge? Neanderthals and Denisovans in the Altai Mountains (Siberia)

UserDr Bence Viola.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Understanding the impact of maternal diet on offspring health.

UserDr Susan Ozanne (Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2013

Descent from a Monkey: The Archaeology of Non-human Primates

UserDr Michael Haslam (University of Oxford).

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

The origin of Homo. What are we looking for?

UserProfessor Bernard Wood.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

T.B.C.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

Intentional gestural communication in great apes

UserProf. Richard Byrne, St Andrew's University.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

Reconstructing the mode and tempo of the out-of-Africa expansion of anatomically modern humans

UserDr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University).

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

Regenerative medicine: a route to true medical control of aging

UserDr Aubrey de Grey, SENS Foundation.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

Virtual techniques applied: from cranial reconstruction to dental analysis

UserDr Stefano Benazzi, Max Planck Institute.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

Human parasites in Past Civilizations

UserDr Piers Mitchell, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Michaelmas Term Seminars 2012

Grasping human limb morphology: what morphological integration, asymmetry, and cross-sectional properties are revealing about limb bone variation and evolution

UserDr Ben Auerbach, University of Tennessee.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Easter Term Seminars 2012

Hypoxia, Fetal Growth and Early Origins of Heart Disease: The Andean Curse on the Conquistadors

UserProfessor Dino A. Giussani, Professor of Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology & Medicine, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Easter Term Seminars 2012

Changes in the genome mutation rate and the timeline for human and great ape evolution

UserDr. Aylwyn Scally, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Easter Term Seminars 2012

Studying stress in primates: behavioural, physiological and cognitive approaches

UserDr. Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Easter Term Seminars 2012

Breathing new life into old fossils: microCT analyses of fossil hominin teeth AND The hand of Australopithecus sediba: Handier than Homo habilis?

UserDr. Matthew Skinner, University College London AND Dr. Tracy Kivell, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Easter Term Seminars 2011

What is uniquely human? An answer from the chimpanzees

UserTetsuro Matsuzawa, University of Kyoto.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Easter Term Seminars 2011

Using primatological observations to develop a long-term model of hominin mortuary activity

UserPaul Pettitt, University of Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2011

What’s in a name? Surnames, Y chromosomes and the history of Britain

UserProfessor Mark Jobling, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology, LCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 10:00-11:00

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2011

Is social transmission critical for the spread of low fertility norms? The case of contraceptive uptake in rural Ethiopia

UserDr Alexandra Alvergne, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology, LCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2011

Why men hunt and women gather

UserDr Frank Marlowe, University of Durham.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology, LCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Lent Term Seminars 2011

Hymenoptera, sex and innovation? Reflections on chimpanzee culture

UserDr Tatyana Humle, University of Kent.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology, LCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

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