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SUMMARY:The Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Lecture 2024: Dr Habiba Chirchir (Ma
 rshall University) What we know and don't know yet about skeletal gracilit
 y in modern humans - Dr Habiba Chirchir (Marshall University)
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CONTACT:Lydia Clough
DESCRIPTION:Skeletal gracility is the reduction in the strength and relati
 ve bone mass as inferred from bone tissue and overall bone size. In contra
 st to our hominin ancestors\, the recent modern human skeleton is unusuall
 y gracile. In this lecture\, I will examine the evidence supporting the re
 cent emergence of gracile morphology\, explore the variations in this morp
 hology among recent human groups\, and discuss the various hypotheses that
  have been proposed to explain this phenomenon through a comparative analy
 sis of extinct and extant mammalian species including hominin ancestors fr
 om the deep past\, reaching as far back as ~ 2 million years ago.  \n\nTo 
 book tickets\, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-jennifer-w
 ard-oppenheimer-lecture-2024-tickets-801287240707
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Centre\, Christ's College
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