Semester 1, 2026
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All seminars are held Fridays 10am - 11am, online via Zoom unless indicated otherwise.
For Zoom details, please contact katharine.baloila@anu.edu.au. In-person seminars will also be live broadcast via Zoom.
6 March 2026
Christopher Wolfe,The Whole Body has entered the Chat: A Manifesto to the Multivariate Phenotype
Online via Zoom
13 March 2026
Margaret Bryer, Deciphering Diet: Primate Nutritional Ecology and Social Behavior in a Changing World
Online via Zoom
27 March 2026
Zewdi Tsegai, Reconstructing bipedalism in human evolution
Online via Zoom
24 April 2026
Gina Palefsky, Regional Isotopic Perspectives on Diet in Metal Age Central Thailand (c. 1100 BCE–CE 500)
Online via Zoom
8 May 2026
Naven Hon, The role of wild food plants on well-beings of local communities in northeastern Cambodia
Online via Zoom and in-person (venue TBC)
22 May 2026
Joseph Watts, The cultural macroevolution of religion
Online via Zoom
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Contact
- Dr Katharine Balolia
Upcoming Events
Deciphering Diet: Primate Nutritional Ecology and Social Behavior in a Changing World
Margaret Bryer PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phenotypes are multidimensional. Yet many contemporary methodologies lack the capability to fully quantify the biological complexity of dynamic and…
Past Events
The Whole Body has entered the Chat: A Manifesto to the Multivariate Phenotype
Christopher Wolfe PhD, East Carolina University
Phenotypes are multidimensional. Yet many contemporary methodologies lack the capability to fully quantify the biological complexity of dynamic and…
Craniofacial development in bats: Insights into the evolution of laryngeal echolocation
Yannick Pommery, ANU
Presented in person and online, details below.Bats are known for their ability of laryngeal echolocation producing of high-frequency pulses from…
New Thinking About the Origins of Material Symbols
Dr. Ron Planer, University of Wollongong
At some point our evolutionary past (exactly when is debated, though most would say within the last 200 ky years or so), our ancestors began to…