Masculine Behavioural Dynamics in Human Self-Domestication
Seminar
About the seminar Domestication related research suggests past selection against aggressive reactivity prompted a range of correlated changes in domesticated populations. These common shifts in morphology, behaviour, and physiology are referred to as ‘the domestication syndrome’. Given…
Craniometric differences in mountain gorilla populations: New skeletal material from Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda
Seminar
Gorilla biology provides an important framework for reconstructing variation in the primate lineage and understanding the ecological factors shaping this variation. Large amounts of variation are present at all levels of gorilla taxonomy including the population-level. The two extant populations of…
How does evolution shape us as a species?
Webinar/Online
In celebration of International Darwin Day 2021, ANU biological anthropologists will discuss how they use evolutionary principles in their research investigating humans as a species. Webinar schedule 10-10.35am Friday 12 February 2021 AEDT - 3 minute talks: Dr…
2021 CNTA Annual Conference: Leveraging Critical Impact through Collaboration
Conference
The theme of this conference focuses on the advantages that collaborations and partnerships potentially offer. Working with a partnership through networked institutional or organisational arrangements, even between individuals, can result in increased impact. The conference theme explores the…
Research Ethics Seminar: Ethics and Development Studies
Seminar
Abstract The issue of obtaining ethics clearance for research in development studies’ interdisciplinary fields is often a cause of frustration and confusion. While this is common across most disciplines, in development studies it is often seen to be more acute given that the research in largely…
Escaping Natures: an Ethnography of Life and Rent in Gran Sabana, Venezuela
Seminar
Participants in the Wings Project (Proyecto Alas) sublimated all the characteristics of escapist visits to the Gran Sabana region, in southern Venezuela. A few years ago, they trekked to Auyantepuy, one of the iconic table-top mountains of this region, and jumped from the mountain top in a wingsuit…
The human-ape interface in an unprotected Cameroonian forest
Seminar
Abstract The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) are two relatively unknown ape taxa with critically low population estimates. Since the ‘rediscovery’ of the Cross River gorilla and the subspecies reclassification of the…