Category: SBRC

Key questions about how humans evolved including why we take so long to grow up and why we age and die are the focus of … Read more

Why do humans take so long to grow up? Why do we age and die? Why are human babies born helpless? These and the answers … Read more

On the Saturday afternoon of 23 June 2018 (13:00-16:00), Canterbury’s Westgate Gardens will host its FIRST Soapbox Science event!  This event brings together the general … Read more

Research by Dr Matthew Skinner and Professor Tracy Kivell on new fossil finds that helped increase our knowledge of human evolution has been included in … Read more

PhD student Christopher Aris, whose thesis is entitled Enamel growth in modern history and its impact on ageing juvenile skeletal remains supervised by Dr Chris … Read more

Dr Emmy Bocaege will be joining the School of Anthropology and Conservation at Kent from the beginning of next year. Currently doing postdoctoral research at … Read more

SBRC research student Rosie Pitfield has published the article ‘Cortical Histomorphometry of the Human Humerus During Ontogeny’ in the medical journal Calcified Tissue International. Her … Read more

On Thursday, March 30th 2017, SAC’S The Biological Anthropology Research Group and the Skeletal Biology Research Centre hosted ‘Written in Bone’, a one-day symposium on Forensic Anthropology … Read more

The Skeletal Biology Research Centre and Biological Anthropology Research Group are pleased to announce that the School of Anthropology & Conservation will be hosting a … Read more

On 8th November, the School of Anthropology and Conservation and the University of Kent hosted world famous palaeoanthropologist Professor Lee Berger to give the 2016 … Read more