Biological Anthropology Seminar Series
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Biological Anthropology Seminar Series Semester 1 2024
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Please note : All seminars are held from 1pm to 2pm AEST and available via Zoom.
Semester 1 2024
Friday, 23rd February
Dr Lee Gettler
"The biology of fatherhood in context: Evolutionary origins, cross-cultural perspectives, and health implications.”
Dr Lee Gettler
"The biology of fatherhood in context: Evolutionary origins, cross-cultural perspectives, and health implications.”
Friday, 22nd March
Dr San Passmore
Friday, 19 April
Associate Professor Karen L. Baab
Friday, 17 May
Dr Stanley Serafin
Embodying the Western Maya Frontier: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Comalcalco and Moxviquil, Mexico
Dr Stanley Serafin
Embodying the Western Maya Frontier: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Comalcalco and Moxviquil, Mexico
Friday, 24 May
Sammuel Sammut
Friday, 21 June
Sofie Semmler
"The nutritional ecology of the Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) within modified habitats"
Semester 2 2024
Friday, 26 July
Claire Terhun
Chewing it over: Why what (and how) we eat has shaped primate and human evolution
Claire Terhun
Chewing it over: Why what (and how) we eat has shaped primate and human evolution
Please refer to attached file for Semester 2 seminars schedule.
Upcoming events
Frailty, mortality and complexity: The osteological paradox and beyond
1–2pm 18 Oct 2024
Paleoepidemiology is concerned with exploration of disease of past population, and in particular the mortality risk associated with factors such as skeletal...Past events
Human-alloprimate coexistence? Current debates and considerations
20 Sep 2024
Facilitating co-existence, defined here as sustainable sympatry, between humans and alloprimates requires careful thought and attention to an array of...The Challenge of Sorcery
23 Aug 2024
In many small world, pre-state societies it is believed that many misfortunes are the result of malicious human agency, using occult techniques. Shit does not...Chewing it over: Why what (and how) we eat has shaped primate and human evolution
26 Jul 2024
Repeated adaptations in the masticatory apparatus have continually redefined how vertebrates interact with their environment. Today, humans experience high...Bone Decomposition in Aquatic Environments
24 Jun 2024
This study used a controlled animal model experiment over 12 months between January 2019 and December 2019 in the Gold Coast region of Australia. Forty-eight...The nutritional ecology of the Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) within modified habitats
21 Jun 2024
The nutritional ecology of the Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) within modified habitats Colobines are a folivorous primate with unique specialized...The Bioarchaeology of Roman Imperialism: A Case Study from the Danube Limes
24 May 2024
The Bioarchaeology of Roman Imperialism: A Case Study from the Danube Limes This seminar will examine two skeletal samples from eastern Austria: one pre-Roman...Embodying the Western Maya Frontier: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Comalcalco and Moxviquil, Mexico
17 May 2024
People signal and contest identity in a variety of ways and have done so for millennia. This fundamental aspect of human societies can be examined across space...Evolution and Variation in Pleistocene Homo
19 Apr 2024
This seminar will touch on a variety of subjects related to variation and evolution of Pleistocene Homo, including virtual reconstructions of fragmentary...Tracing the threads of linguistic and genetic diversity in New Guinea
22 Mar 2024
New Guinea is the heart of global linguistic diversity. New Guinea makes up 1% of the global land area as an island, containing less than Dr. Sam Passmore is...The biology of fatherhood in context: Evolutionary origins, cross-cultural perspectives, and health implications
23 Feb 2024
Human fathers have a fexible psychobiological capacity to respond to committed parenting with shifts in hormones such as testosterone, prolactin, and oxytocin...
