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
Category: Biological Anthropology
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
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
PhD student Christopher Aris awarded Laura Bassi scholarship
The Laura Bassi scholarship is awarded to PhD students and early career researchers by Editing Press, a company formed from academics from Oxford and Cambridge. … Read more
Dr Sarah Johns explains the laws of attraction in an interview for South China Morning Post
Looks play a huge role in our initial attraction to another person. According to Irish-American biopsychologist and author Nigel Barber, humans are typically attracted to … Read more
Professor Tracy Kivell and Professor Richard Griffiths awarded University Research Prizes
Main image (left to right): Professor Richard Griffiths, Vice-Chancellor Professor Karen Cox, Professor Tracy Kivell, Dr Alexandra Leduc-Pagel, Dr Robert Fish and Head of School … Read more
Kent at the British Association of Human Identification (BAHID) summer conference
Dr Julieta G. García-Donas and Jeremy Pless, student of the MSc Forensic Osteology and Field Recovery Methods programme, attended the British Association of Human Identification … Read more