
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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Contact
- Dr Katharine Balolia
Past Events
There and Back Again: A Palaeodemographic Tale of Biased Skeletal Samples
Bonnie Taylor, Australian National Univeristy
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The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultural Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects
Associate Professor Eleanor Power, London School of Economics and Political Science
Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic inequality is of core interest to social scientists, policy makers, and the public. I…
Variation in Paranthropus; microevolution, sexual dimorphism, and ontogeny
Dr Jesse Martin, Cambridge University
The genus Paranthropus includes at least three distinct species, (P. aethiopicus, P. boisei, and P. robustus), that share a unique suite of primitive…


