Biological Anthropology Seminar Series
TUESDAYS 16:30 -18:00 (tea from 16:00)
DARYLL FORDE
SEMINAR ROOM (Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton St, off Gordon Sq)
Informal
get-together with the speakers after the talks
Spring 2013
Jan
8 Kate Jones (UCL, Center for Biodiversity and Environmental Research)
Macroecology of human
infectious diseases
Jan
15 Caroline Howe (UCL, Center for Biodiversity and Environmental
Research)
Beyond win-win:
interrogating ecosystem service dynamics
Jan
22 Jed Stevenson (UCL, Anthropology)
Women's schooling and child
development in Ethiopia
Jan 29 Michela Leonardi (UCL, Anthropology)
Horse domestication inferred from computer simulations
on ancient DNA data
CANCELLED Feb
5 Lauren Coad (University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute)
Monitoring changes in
hunter behaviour and hunting sustainability from 2001 - 2012 in a village
hunting system, Central Gabon
Feb 12 READING WEEK - No seminar
Feb 19 Ruth Malleson (UCL, Anthropology)
Smallholder farmers,
forests and oil palm plantations: assessing the impacts of agro-industrial oil
palm plantations in Southwest Province, Cameroon
Feb 26 Colette Berbesque (University of
Roehampton, Life Sciences)
A woman's work is never done: Hadza women's
foraging reputations and reproductive success
Mar 5 Robb Rutledge (UCL, Institute of
Neurology)
Reward and subjective wellbeing in the human brain
Mar 12 Janet Seeley (University of East
Anglia, School of International Development)
The impact of the HIV epidemic on agriculture or the
impact of agriculture on HIV?
Contact Matthew Skinner (m.skinner@ucl.ac.uk) for any further information
Autumn 2012
Oct 2 John Skoyles (UCL, CoMPLEX)
The expensive child brain hypothesis: Juvenile
neuromaturational vulnerability and human evolution
Oct 9 Fred Spoor (UCL, Cell and Developmental Biology)
New early Homo fossils
from Koobi Fora: resolving debates of species diversity at the origin of our
genus
Oct 16 Ruth Mace (UCL, Anthropology)
The evolutionary ecology of a Chinese
matrilineal system where husband and wife live apart
Oct 23 Molly Fox (Cambridge University, Archaeology and Anthropology)
A
grandmother never forgets: Alzheimer's disease and the evolution of human
longevity
Oct 30 Hannah Lewis (UCL, Anthropology)
Modelling cumulative culture and trait
transmission in humans
Nov 6 READING WEEK - No seminar
Nov 13 Peter Schauer (UCL, Archaeology)
Cultural evolution
in the age of Athens: How random copying
may explain variation in Greek figure-painted pottery
Nov 20 Sara Randall (UCL, Anthropology)
Poverty in African
Households: the limits of
survey representations
Nov 27 Leslie Knapp (Cambridge University, Archaeology and Anthropology)
Genetics
and signals of individuality in primates
Dec 4 Kate Hill (Oxford Brookes, Social Sciences)
From
open access to private ownership: Deforestation in Hoima district, Uganda
CANCELLED - Dec 11 Robb Rutledge (UCL, Institute of Neurology)
Reward and subjective wellbeing in the human
brain
