In Southwest Germany, our SAC students, staff, and PhD candidates attended the 12th annual ESHE<\/a> <\/span>meeting at the Neue Aula, University of T\u00fcbingen on the 22nd – 24th of September. The European Society for the Study of Human Evolution promotes the broad field of research which investigates how humans evolved both biologically and culturally.<\/span><\/p>\n This year’s ESHE meeting was PhD candidate Samar Syeda<\/a>\u2019s first ever In-Person conference, so naturally she presented!<\/span><\/p>\n Samar thoroughly enjoyed sharing some of her research: <\/span>\u2018Reconstructing hand use in Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi: mapping variation in cortical thickness across the proximal and intermediate phalanges.\u2019<\/p>\n “It went great!!\u2019 she said \u2018I was a bit nervous but everyone at ESHE was super lovely and interested, so I was able to explain my research well without getting flustered”.<\/p>\n Give a big hand to Samar!<\/span><\/p>\n She was joined by fellow SAC PhD candidate Andrea Lukova<\/a>, who studies trabecular distribution of the hominin knee and shared the results of her research on ‘Trabecular distribution in extant apes and australopithecus sediba’. Zewdi Tsegai<\/a>, a postdoctoral researcher funded by a Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, gave a Pecha Kucha on the Homo floresiensis foot: Reconstructing foot use from the internal bone of the metatarsals LB1′.<\/p>\n This was also Rhianna Drummond-Clarke<\/a>‘s first In-Person conference, presenting a talk on Issa chimpanzee locomotor behaviour, whilst both Professor Tracy Kivell<\/a>, Chris Dunmore<\/a>, and Dr Matthew Skinner<\/a> were in attendance as PhD supervisors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"eshe\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2022\/10\/MicrosoftTeams-image-7.jpg\")
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