The Cozzarelli Prize is awarded annually to six research teams whose PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) … Read more
Category: Biological Anthropology
Call for students to attend the field trip of a lifetime at a forest reserve in Uganda
Dr Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher is currently selecting students for the field experience of a lifetime. In September, he will be taking seven students to a … Read more
Dr Alastair Key leads study revealing early humans engineered optimised stone tools
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 – 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools, according … Read more
Professor Tracy Kivell provides expert commentary on the discovery of Danuvius, a new fossil ape
Professor Tracy Kivell, Professor of Biological Anthropology, recently shared her thoughts in a Nature News & Views article on the discovery of a new fossil ape … Read more
Open Lecture – ‘Homo Luzonensis: Discovery of a New Human Species’
Tuesday 3rd December 2019, 18:00 – 19:00. Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1, University of Kent Join Dr Florent Détroit, from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, to … Read more
Dr Matthew Skinner publishes paper revealing that teeth are more beautiful below the surface
Palaeoanthropologists use fossil teeth to reconstruct our evolutionary past. Unfortunately, information about tooth shape is lost as they wear down during an individual’s lifetime. A … Read more
Human Evolution educational materials now available to download
To improve the public understanding of human evolution, Professor Tracy Kivell and Dr Matthew Skinner have created several interactive educational materials aimed at primary and … Read more
Undergraduate field trip to forest reserve in Uganda – “an experience that will stay with us forever!”
Primate Ecology is like no other module we’ve taken before in our many years of University: it is an experience that will stay with us … Read more
Stirling Lecture – How Woman’s Evolution Challenges Traditional Narrative Views of Man’s
This year’s Stirling Lecture will be delivered by Dr Holly Dunsworth, University of Rhode Island, with a talk entitled ‘This View of Wife: How Woman’s … Read more
School of Anthropology and Conservation declares Climate and Environmental Emergency
On Wednesday 25th September, the School of Anthropology and Conservation held a Climate and Environmental Emergency event, to begin to examine and discuss the way … Read more