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


2014-10-15 16:30: Ebola! ( Peter D. Walsh, Division of Biological Anthropology)

2014-10-22 16:30: Division of labour in European Prehistory: New insights from human skeletal remains (Dr. Sébastien Villotte (PACEA, CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1))

2014-11-07 16:30: The Analysis of King Richard III (Dr Piers Mitchell (Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge))

2014-11-18 16:30: Principles of Functional Craniology in Paleoneurology and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy  (Dr. Emiliano Bruner (CNIEH, Burgos, Spain))

2014-12-03 16:30: Osteoarchaeology in India: Present and Future Perspective (Dr Veena Mushrif-Tripathy (Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, India))

2015-01-21 16:30: Revisting the Savanna Hypothesis (Prof Julia Lee-Thorp (Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford))

2015-02-04 16:30: Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Human Pigmentation (Dr. Sandra Beleza (Department of Genetics, University of Leicester))

2015-02-18 16:30: A Look Inside Hominins: New Insight on the Hobbit (LB1), Broken Hill and La Ferrassie (Dr. Antoine Balzeau (CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7194))

2015-03-04 16:30: Experimental Studies of Social Intelligence  in Chimpanzees (Prof Satoshi Hirata (Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Japan))

2015-04-27 16:30: Genetic Perspectives on Indigenous Ancestry in the Caribbean (Dr. Jada Benn Torres (Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA).)

2015-05-06 16:30: Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees (Dr. Cat Hobaiter (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews))

2015-05-19 16:30: The Evolution of Exaggerated Sexual Swellings in Female Non-Human Primates (Gillian Brown and Sally Street (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews))

2015-10-09 16:30: The origins of modern humans and Neandertals: the Atapuerca evidence (Prof Juan Luis Arsuaga, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

2015-10-21 16:30: The Dawn of Technology: 3.3-million-year-old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana, Kenya (Prof Sonia Harmand, Stony Brook University, New York)

2015-11-04 16:30: Legends of Facial Hollows - the science of inner space (Dr Todd C. Rae, University of Roehampton)

2015-11-25 16:30: Social evolution in human and non-human primates (Dr Kit Opie, University College London)

2016-02-03 16:30: Towards the understanding of the genetic bases of complex adaptations in the human genome (Prof Jaume Bertanpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

2016-02-17 16:30: Chronology of the earliest prehistoric settlements in Europe. When did Homo reach Europe? (Dr. Christophe Falguères, CNRS - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris)

2016-03-02 16:30: Studying culture in the laboratory in human and nonhuman primates (Prof Christine Anna Caldwell, University of Stirling)

2016-04-20 16:30: Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys (Dr Erica van de Waal, University of Zurich)

2016-05-04 16:30: Neanderthal interbreeding: fact or fiction? (Prof Bill Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-11 16:30: Sequencing archaic human genomes (Dr Matthias Meyer, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

2016-05-18 16:30: The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens (Prof Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, London)

2016-10-19 16:30: The complex origins of modern humans and their diversity (Dr Marta Mirazón Lahr, LCHES, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-02 16:30: The functional significance of facial differences among recent hominins (Prof Dr Paul O'Higgins, Centre for Anatomical & Human Sciences, Department of Archaeology and Hull York Medical School, University of York)

2016-11-16 16:30: The role of climate in shaping human demography and migrations during the out-of-Africa expansion (Dr. Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge University)

2016-12-07 16:30: Renewed investigation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence from Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa (Jason E. Lewis (Turkana Basin Institute & Stony Brook University))

2017-01-25 16:30: Communal breeding and life history trade-offs in Agta foragers (Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London))

2017-02-08 16:30: The genetic history of Papua New Guinea: 50,000 years of independent human evolution (Chris Tyler-Smith (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2017-02-22 16:30: The Acheulean in East Africa: results of recent research (Ignacio de la Torre (Institute of Archaeology, University College London))

2017-03-08 16:30: Fishermen, fossils and flints: varied approaches to targeting and investigating submerged Palaeolithic archaeology in the North Sea (Rachel Bynoe (Natural History Museum, London))

2017-05-24 16:30: Evolutionary perspectives on maternal investment - from conception (or not) onward (Sarah Myers (University of Kent))

2017-06-07 16:30: Is there anybody out there? Reconstructing large-scale prehistoric population dynamics and migration processes (Isabell Schmidt (University of Cologne))

2017-10-18 16:30: Huns and Romans: relationships between pastoral and agricultural populations on the late Roman frontier  (Susanne Hakenbeck (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-25 16:30: Morphological and palaeoecological perspectives on baboon evolution (Sarah Elton (Durham University))

2017-11-01 16:30: What’s so social about primate sociability? (Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford))

2017-11-08 16:30: The ecology and evolutionary origins of Australopithecus (René Bobe (University of Oxford))

2017-11-15 16:30: Culture and the EEA: Origins of human social structure, cognition and language (Lucio Vinicius (University College London))

2017-11-29 16:30: Beyond recognition: The application of biological anthropology to identification of the more recently deceased (Heather Bonney (Natural History Museum))

2018-01-17 16:30: The domestication of the seasons, a later critical stage in the transformation of cultivated plants (Professor Martin Jones (University of Cambridge))

2018-01-24 16:30: Knowledge on wild plants in BaYaka hunter-gatherers and its implications on cultural evolution and health (Gul Deniz Salali (University College London))

2018-01-31 16:30: Prehistoric cannibalism: why such a fuss? (Silvia Bello (Natural History Museum))

2018-02-07 16:30: Anthropology, mass graves and the politics of the dead (Constantine Eliopoulos (Liverpool John Moores University))

2018-02-14 16:30: Diagnosing diseases of childhood: a bioarchaeological and palaeopathological perspective (Carolyn Rando (University College London))

2018-02-21 16:30: Anthropological engineering and hominin dietary ecology (Michael Berthaume (Imperial College))

2018-02-28 16:30: Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals (Mateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology))

2018-03-07 16:30: Social support and breastfeeding in the UK: evolutionary perspectives and implications for public health (Emily Emmott (University College London))

2018-03-14 16:30: Primate tourism: opportunities and challenges (Laetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln))

2018-03-21 16:30: Evolution’s Bite: Dental evidence for the diets of our distant ancestors (Peter S. Ungar (University of Arkansas))

2018-04-25 16:30: Is that really helping? Critical analysis of breastfeeding support in the UK from an evolutionary perspective (Emily Emmott (University College London))

2018-05-02 16:30: Past, present, and future of orangutan conservation (Serge Wich (Liverpool John Moores University))

2018-05-09 16:30: Title to be confirmed (To be confirmed)

2018-05-16 16:30: A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets (Amanda Henry (Leiden University))

2018-05-23 16:30: Cultural evolution of kinship diversity: the micro and macro of talking about family (Fiona Jordan (University of Bristol))

2018-05-30 16:30: T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project (Susana Carvalho (University of Oxford))

2018-06-06 16:30: Climate crises: their social, technological and demographic impact on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Angkor (Charles Higham (University of Otago))

2018-06-13 16:30: The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons (Annemieke Milks (University College London))

2018-10-03 16:30: Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition (Professor Jonathan Birch (LSE))

2018-10-10 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Jason Hodgson (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-17 16:30: The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier (Tina Lasisi (Penn State) )

2018-10-24 16:30: Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language (Dr. Jerome Lewis (UCL))

2018-10-31 16:30: Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?  (Dr. Kit Opie (Bristol))

2018-11-07 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld)

2018-11-14 16:30: The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies (Professor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute))

2018-11-21 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Josephine Joordens)

2018-11-28 16:30: T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project (Dr. Susana Carvalho)

2019-01-16 16:30: Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes  (Dr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova)

2019-01-17 16:30: How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory   (Dr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth)

2019-01-23 16:30: The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists  (Dr. Sally Street, University of Durham)

2019-01-30 16:30: Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens  (Dr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham)

2019-02-06 16:30: Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Professor Anne Stone, Arizona State University)

2019-02-13 16:30: New approaches to modeling technological evolution (Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge  )

2019-02-20 16:30: North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?  (Professor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University)

2019-02-27 16:30: Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens  (Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH)

2019-11-06 16:30: Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia (Professor Chris Stringer (NHM))

2020-02-19 16:30: Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture (Aylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-26 16:30: TBA (Ines Varela-Silva (Loughborough University))

2020-03-04 16:30: Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon (Laure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle))

2020-03-11 16:30: Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective (Rihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-26 16:30: Biological diversity among modern human populations  (Dr Fernando Rozzi)

2022-11-02 16:30: Placental hormones and bacterias: partners in crime in the regulation of fetal growth (Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello)

2022-11-09 16:30: Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals (Dr Habiba Chirchir)