Biological Anthropology Research Seminar
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Biological Anthropology Research Seminar
No events in this series are currently scheduled. Details of future events will be posted as they become available.
Past events
Applying the polio model to New Zealand: the contingent role of socioeconomic status in infectious disease mortality
21 May 2020
Summary: Non-Māori (settler) New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had reputation as ‘working man’s paradise’ with extensive social mixing,...The emergence of inequality in the transition from forager to sedentary lives
5 Mar 2020
Almost all living humans live in social world that are profoundly unequal in wealth and influence. By the standard of deep human history, that is a recent...The cost of fertility: maternal mortality and morbidity during ancient demographic transitions
17 Oct 2019
Bioarchaeological accounts of the relationship between fertility, maternal and infant mortality have been limited by the inability to measure the prevalence of...Biomechanics of the primate mandible in health and post fracture fixation
3 Oct 2019
Mandible (lower jaw) fractures account for approximately 30-40% of skull trauma and are multifactorial, including congenital disorders, cancer, assault, and...Babies, brains, tools, & war: Trends in human evolution
2 Jul 2019
Natural selection for walking on two legs (bipedalism) in our ancestors was associated with evolutionary-developmental (‘evo-devo’) changes in the physical...
