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
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 (Sir Roland Wilson Building, room 3.02)
22 May 2026
Joseph Watts, The cultural macroevolution of religion
Online via Zoom
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