Semester 2, 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.
31 July
Zachary Cofran, Small apes, small brains—big lessons for human evolution
Online via Zoom
14 August
Zewdi Tsegai, Reconstructing locomotion in the human lineage: integrating new morphological and biomechanical approaches
Online via Zoom
28 August
Daniel Franklin, Forensic Investigation of Victims of the Batavia Mutiny 1629
Online via Zoom
25 September
Helen Kurki, Evolution of the human pelvis and childbirth: Myths, mythos, and logos
Online via Zoom
9 October
Travis Steffens, We are in this together: One Health Approaches to ConservationResearch and Practice
Online via Zoom
23rd October
Khandis Blake, Gender, kinship, and the architecture of the human mind: A proposal from psychology
Online via Zoom
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Upcoming Events
Evolution of the human pelvis and childbirth: Myth, mythos, and logos
Heln Kurki (University of Victoria)
The human female pelvis has long been viewed as a compromised structure, suggesting it is not best designed for anything. The dominant evolutionary…
Past Events
Frailty, mortality and complexity: The osteological paradox and beyond
Bronwyn Wyatt, Australian National University
Paleoepidemiology is concerned with exploration of disease of past population, and in particular the mortality risk associated with factors such as…
Human-alloprimate coexistence? Current debates and considerations
Dr Nicholas malone, university of Auckland
Facilitating co-existence, defined here as sustainable sympatry, between humans and alloprimates requires careful thought and attention to an array…
The Challenge of Sorcery
Professor Kim Sterelny, ANU
In many small world, pre-state societies it is believed that many misfortunes are the result of malicious human agency, using occult techniques. Shit…