Evidence based research in Zoos: A case study of Sulawesi crested black macaques
Seminar
There is a need to adopt an evidence based framework to evaluate the impact of captive housing and husbandry on the behaviour and welfare of animals maintained in zoos. Historically myth and tradition have fueled the actions of the zoo professions; and many other besides. Zoos maintain a myriad and…
Behavioural biology title (TBC)
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM
The value of rarity in sexual behaviour
Seminar
Rob is a biologist curious about how variation in behaviour arises and is maintained in the face of selection. He will present some of his work on mate choice addressing how variation in secondary sexual traits may be maintained by an advantage to rare traits. He proposes to extend that thinking to…
How Teeth Shed Light on Our Evolutionary Past
Seminar
Teeth are some of the best preserved and most commonly-recovered elements in human fossil assemblages, leading to more than a century of comparative studies of tooth size and shape. Dental tissues also preserve remarkably faithful records of their development through time, represented by…
The Backward looking curiosity - the History of Archaeology
Other
Presented by The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) ARC Laureate Project To understand the history of archaeology is one way to understand ourselves. Brian Fagan explores the history of archaeology from its beginnings in epic searches for fossil ancestors and lost…