{"id":4921,"date":"2020-05-15T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2020-05-19T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:55:27","slug":"biological-anthropology-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/05\/15\/biological-anthropology-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological Anthropology Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each term, the Biological Anthropology Seminar Series is organised at the School of Anthropology and Conservation to discuss current research with UK and international scientists specialising in a variety of topics in the discipline, such as primatology, human behaviour and psychology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology and forensic bioarchaeology. \u200b<\/p>\n

Over the course of this year, we had a fantastic set of speakers delivering a set of diverse and interesting seminars, well attended by a broad audience comprising undergraduate and postgraduate PhD students, post-doctoral researcers and staff members. The organisers of the series, Dr Ameline Bardo and Dr Mona Le Luyer, invited twelve researchers from a global line-up, from presentations looking at how a mongoose is changing taphonomic research, what the Longshanks mouse can tell us about human evolution, understanding variation in primate appearance using a sensory ecological approach and using gait analysis and 3D modelling to build evolutionary hypotheses.<\/p>\n

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Illustrated faces of different species of the Guenon genus of monkey from Dr James Higham’s talk, ‘Understanding variation in primate appearance: a sensory ecology approach.’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The seminar delivered by Dr Florent D\u00e9troit, <\/a>from the Mus\u00e9um national d\u2019Histoire naturelle, on December 3rd,\u00a0<\/sup>2019, entitled ‘Homo luzonensis<\/em>, a new species of the genus Homo<\/em> from the Late Pleistocene of Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, the Philippines)’, took place as an open lecture attended by more than 50 people. Both organisers received a lot of positive feedback on this event, with people saying that it was great to be able to meet and talk with a researcher that took part in the archaeological excavation and subsequent discovery of a new species of early human.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we had to postpone the talk of Professor Sarah Elton<\/a> from Durham University due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but she has kindly agreed to come during the 2020-21 academic year to talk about ‘Exploring evolutionary processes in the radiation of Old World monkeys’.<\/p>\n

All are welcome when the seminar series returns this autumn! It is a great opportunity to discover lots of various topics in Biological Anthropology and to meet and talk with researchers from different fields.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks again to all our fantastic speakers this year:<\/p>\n