Lecturer in Biological Anthropology Dr Chris Dunmore participated in a local eidtion of the worldwide franchise Pint of Science, which brings current science to the mainstream. Canterbury and Medway hosted 3 sessions in total, which were all sold out!
There were a variety of speakers, lecturing about new imaging for IVF, how to breathe ‘properly’, and Dr Dunmore talked about the evolution of the human hand which has evolved to make technology, (unlike our closest living relatives, the apes).
During the event he had people knuckle walk like a chimpanzee, manipulate tree nuts with orangutan hand proportions, and play match the fossil hand with the fossil skulls (no real fossils were used in the making of this event).
‘It’s really great to explain your research to people with fresh outside perspectives.’ Dr Chris Dunmore
‘I met a couple that saw me present different research in 2019, the last time Pint of Science came to Kent. It was so much fun to talk about how the research has developed over that time.’
