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


2014-01-29 16:30: Populations in statistical genetics: what are they, and how can we infer them from whole genome data? (Dr Dan Lawson)

2014-01-29 16:30: Populations in statistical genetics: what are they, and how can we infer them from whole genome data? (Dr Dan Lawson ())

2014-02-05 16:30: On the antiquity of speech and language: did the Neandertals talk and why would it matter? (Dr Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

2014-02-12 16:30: Evidence for sedentism before the onset of agriculture during the Epipalaeolithic in Northwest Africa? (Dr Isabel de Groote, Liverpool John Moores University)

2014-02-19 16:30: Anthropological Engineering: The Interface of two Dissimilar Disciplines (Dr Michael Berthaume, University of Massachusetts)

2014-02-27 16:30: Language in deep time (Prof Klaus Zuberbuhler, St Andrews & Neuchatel)

2014-03-04 16:30: Just how unique are humans anyway? (Prof Alice Roberts, University of Birmingham)

2014-03-12 16:30: The expensive brain: when does natural selection favor increased brain size? (Prof Carel van Schaik, University of Zurich)

2014-04-30 16:30: Terrible teens: an osteological investigation of adolescence and health in medieval England (Dr Mary Lewis, University of Reading)

2014-05-07 16:30: The use of conservation drines for monitoring wildlife and its habitat (Prof Serge Wich, Liverpool John Moores University)

2014-05-13 16:30: Was the evolution of the modern human brain the result of social or environmental pressures? (Dr Susanne Shultz)

2014-05-21 16:30: Great Apes at the Interface: Chimpanzee Flexibility in Dynamic Anthropogenic Habitats (Dr Kimberly Hockings, Oxford Brookes University)

2014-06-04 16:30: Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns, personality traits, relationship status, and hormone (Prof Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago)

2014-10-29 16:30: The Evolution of Culture (Prof Kevin N. Laland (School of Biology, University of St Andrews))

2014-11-12 16:30: Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gatherer? (Dr Simon Underdown (Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University ))

2014-11-26 16:30: Extreme pattern of genetic diversity in humans (Dr. Vincenza Colonna (Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy))

2015-01-15 16:30: Inferring a Deep Time Evolutionary Anatomical Context of Primates and Hominoids (Dr. Jeroen Smaers (Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University))

2015-01-28 16:30: Fitness Meets Fitness: The Evolution and Genetics of Evolutionary and Physical Fitness in Humans (Dr. Erik Postma (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich))

2015-02-11 16:30: Population Genetics of Greenlanders  Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate (Dr. Matteo Fumagalli (University College of London Genetics Institute, Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences))

2015-02-25 16:30: Tool Use by Capuchin Monkeys in Sierra da Capivara National Park (Brazil) (Dr. Tiago Falotico (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford))

2015-03-11 16:30: Testosterone and Human Gender  Development (Prof Melissa Hine (Hormones and Behaviour Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2015-04-29 16:30: The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective (Dr. Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAMPEA - UMR 7269, France))

2015-05-13 16:30: Cognitive development assessed by object manipulation in great apes and humans (Dr. Misato Hayashi (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University))

2015-06-15 16:30: Mapping shared markers for a childhood liver disease across a Polynesian population (Sophia Cameron-Christie, University of Otago, New Zealand)

2015-09-18 16:30: Con Co Ngua: a c. 4,500 BC Complex Hunter-Gatherer Site in Northern Vietnam (Dr Marc Oxenham and Anna Willis, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University)

2015-09-21 16:30: Homo naledi, a new homini species from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa (Prof. John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2015-10-28 16:30: Papuan pasts: genetic evidence so far (Dr Robert Attenborough, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-11 16:30: Cultural transitions during the Iberomaurusian in Morocco (Dr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum London)

2016-01-27 16:30: Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication (Prof Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton)

2016-02-10 16:30: Cross-talk between cultural and genetic evolution in humans (Prof Evelyne Heyer, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris)

2016-02-24 16:30: Postnatal ontogeny of the cranial base in modern humans and chimpanzees (Dr. Sandra Martelli, University College London)

2016-03-09 16:30: Behind every good man: women's production and reproduction in the Hadza hunter-gatherers (Dr. Colette Berbesque)

2016-04-13 16:30: Kinship and sex-biased parental investment among the Mosuo of Southwest China (Dr Siobhán M. Mattison, University of New MExico)

2016-04-27 16:30: Cultural transmission of tool selection in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) (Dr Lydia Luncz, University of Oxford)

2016-05-25 16:30: Local adaptation in humans: lessons from modern and ancient genomes (Dr Aida Andrés, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

2016-11-30 16:30: Brains growing on the tree of life. A phylogenetic approach to brain structure & function (Prof Dr Robert A. Barton, Institute of Advanced Study (Social Science & Health) &  Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, Durham University)

2017-01-18 16:30: Can we infer patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data?  (Enrico Crema (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge))

2017-02-01 16:30: What lies beneath? How microtomography is providing new insights into systematics and functional morphology in the human fossil record (Matthew Skinner (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent))

2017-02-15 16:30: Recent Investigations into the Stone Age site of Isimila, Tanzania (James Cole (University of Brighton))

2017-03-01 16:30: Primate stone tool use for paleoanthropologists (Michael Haslam (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford))

2017-03-15 16:30: An ancient origin for contemporary chronic disease risk in South Asia? (Emma Pomeroy (Liverpool John Moores University))

2017-05-10 16:30: Aboriginal body shape and clothing, and the Tasmanian problem(s) (Ian Gilligan (Department of Archaeology, University of Sidney))

2017-05-17 16:30: Bawls, balls and brains: primate vocal communication and the evolution of speech (Jacob Dunn (Anglia Ruskin University))

2017-05-31 16:30: The Most Rational People in the World (James Holland Jones (Stanford University & Imperial College))

2017-10-04 16:30: Stress and adaptation - a life history perspective using endurance sports (Daniel Longman (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-11 16:30: Deciphering the enamel and dental development in hominins. The importance of the Atapuerca dental remains (Mario Modesta Mata (CENIEH, Burgos))