Beyond sequence comparisons - studying human evolution in the age of functional genomics
Seminar
Much of humans' evolutionary past is documented in our genomes. Traces of our contact with close relatives like Neandertals, exposure to selective forces like malaria and even the adoption of cultural behaviours such as dairying have all shaped our DNA in readily detectable ways. Looking deeper in…
Beyond sequence comparisons - studying human evolution in the age of functional genomics
Seminar
Much of humans' evolutionary past is documented in our genomes. Traces of our contact with close relatives like Neandertals, exposure to selective forces like malaria and even the adoption of cultural behaviours such as dairying have all shaped our DNA in readily detectable ways. Looking deeper in…
Getting to Know the Gozitans: Bioarchaeological approaches to exploring fragility and sustainability in Neolithic Malta (ca. 4400-2200 BC)
Seminar
Human history is punctuated by the succession of changing cultures and civilisations, many of which emerged and disappeared within decades or centuries. But why did some cultures manage to sustain themselves for centuries or millennia, while others collapsed in response to changing conditions in…
Getting to Know the Gozitans: Bioarchaeological approaches to exploring fragility and sustainability in Neolithic Malta (ca. 4400-2200 BC)
Seminar
Human history is punctuated by the succession of changing cultures and civilisations, many of which emerged and disappeared within decades or centuries. But why did some cultures manage to sustain themselves for centuries or millennia, while others collapsed in response to changing conditions in…
Biological Anthropology Public Lecture 2018 - New insights into nutrient balancing of apes and monkeys in tropical forests
Lecture
Dr Rothman is broadly interested in primate feeding and diet. The focus of her research program is understanding how primates meet their nutritional needs through interactions with their environment, and she is specifically interested in how ecology, sociality, movement and disease intersect with…
Claims and counter claims - a review of the scientific process of enquiry in the case of Homo floresiensis
Seminar
Thirteen years ago the discovery of a small partial skeleton and other comparable bones were attributed to a new hominid species, Homo floresiensis. This caused a sensation - headlines swept around the world, blog pages were crammed. Such a tiny, archaic-looking species comprising individuals only…
The Masks of Mer - Documentary about the first ethnographic film made by Alfred Haddon the the Torres Strait Island of Mer in 1898
Performance
This is the story of a film - a film shot over a hundred years ago, lasting for less than a minute, but a visual document whose uniqueness transcends the long age and short duration.In 1888 the young biologist Alfred Haddon undertook a research trip to the islands in the Torres Strait between New…