NEWS ARCHIVE
01/2013
Congratulations to Heidi Colleran for completing her PhD on "The evolutionary anthropology of fertility decline in rural Poland"

08/2012
Antonio Silva and Ruth Mace have published a paper in PLOS One: Lost Letter Measure of Variation in Altruistic Behaviour in 20 Neighbourhoods.

06/2012
Two of our PhD student won awards at the EHBEA and HBES conferences. Emily Emmott was awarded the best student poster at EHBEA and Heidi Colleran won the new investigator award at HBES.

03/2012
Ruth Mace talked in a public panel discussion at the Royal Society on What it means to be human and video of the talk is now available.

09/2011
Andrea Migliano is a co-author in an article published on Science: An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

08/2011
Shakti Lamba and Ruth Mace have published a paper in PNAS: Demography and ecology drive variation in cooperation across human populations.

07/2011
HEEG would like to congratulate Kesson Magid for having succcesfully completed his PhD viva.

07/2011
Andrea Migliano, Ruth Mace, Mark Thomas and Jerome Lewis have secured a £1.7M grant from the Leverhulme Trust to study Resilience in Hunter-Gatherers.

06/2011
HEEG go on an academic and spiritual retreat to Suffolk.

05/2011
David Lawson and Mhairi Gibson (University of Bristol) are organising a workshop on Applied Evolutionary Anthropology to be held 14-16th September 2011. Abstracts due July 22, 2011

05/2011
Volker Sommer fom UCL has written a letter criticising the London Zoo over the death of the baby gorilla Tiny after the introduction of an unrelated male silverback gorilla into the enclosure.

10/2010
Tom Currie and Ruth Mace have published a paper in Nature: Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific (pdf)