Biological Anthropology Research Seminar Series, Semester 1 2025
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All seminars are held Fridays, 1pm to 2pm AEST via Zoom.
Semester 1 2025
Friday 14 March
Dr Julie Teichroab, The evolution of tiered social organisations: The case of the Rwenzori colobus
Online via zoom
Friday 28 March
Prof Carlina de la Cova Anatomized Without Consent: Ethical entanglements, marginalized persons, and righting the wrongs associated with anatomical and legacy collections in the United States and beyond
Online via zoom
Friday 2 May
Dr Jesse Martin Variation in Paranthropus; microevolution, sexual dimorphism and ontogency
Online via zoom
Friday 16 May
Assoc Professor Eleanor Power The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultural Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects
Online via Zoom
Friday 30 May
Bonnie Taylor There and Back Again: A Palaeodemographic Tale of Biased Skeletal Samples
Sir Roland Wilson building, Room 3.02 + Online via Zoom
Contact
- Dr Katharine Balolia
Past Events
Recent discoveries at the Drimolen hominin site and their bearing on our understanding of early hominin evolution in South Africa
Professor Andy I.R. Herries, La Trobe University
Prof Herries will talk about his team’s latest discoveries at the Drimolen hominin bearing site in South Africa, including the world’s oldest Homo…
Environmental change and behavioural flexibility: Japanese monkeys and disability on Awaji Island, Japan
Professor Sarah Turner, Concordia University
What does it mean for an animal to have a physical disability? As human-induced environmental change increasingly impacts species and ecosystems in…
Children of the Ice Age: What can the study of past children tell us about human evolution?
A/Prof Michelle Langley, Griffith University
Abstract Children were a significant part of Palaeolithic – and other prehistoric – societies. Indeed, it is probable that children constituted…