Phenotypes are multidimensional. Yet many contemporary methodologies lack the capability to fully quantify the biological complexity of dynamic and multivariate processes. Utilizing virtual modalities and bespoke Bayesian modelling, this seminar expounds upon the value of thinking multivarietly about the human growth and development phenotype. Through example [and perhaps the smallest bit of math], this presentation highlights not only the dynamism of a modular, yet integrated growth phenotype, but demonstrates to the audience the myriad possibilities available when one step backs and views the phenotype not piecemeal or one trait at a time, but instead in totality, where the whole body enters the chat.

About the Speaker

Dr. Christopher Wolfe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University, is a computational biological anthropologist whose research focuses on the evolution of and/ variation within the uniquely human ontogeny from past and present human populations. 

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