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Open Events: UCL Evolutionary Anthropology Term 1 Seminars 2024

Join us for our UCL Evolutionary Anthropology in-person seminars this term!

These seminars are free to attend & open to all, and takes place in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room on Floor 2 of the UCL Anthropology building. The seminar room is accessible, with ramps into the building and lift access to Floor 2.


When: Tuesdays 3:30-5:00pm

Open Events: UCL Evo Anth Seminar Series, Spring Term 2024

Join us for our UCL Evolutionary Anthropology in-person seminars this term!

These seminars are free to attend & open to all.


When: Tuesdays 3:30-5:00pm


Where: UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Daryll Forde Seminar Room (Floor 2).




Celibacy: its surprising evolutionary advantages – new research

by Ruth Mace & Alberto Micheletti


Why would someone join an institution that removed the option of family life and required them to be celibate? Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us. Yet many religious institutions around the world require exactly this. The practice has led anthropologists to wonder how celibacy could have evolved in the first place.


Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving

Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new study led by UCL Evolutionary Anthropology - with implications for our understanding of how non-human animals experience emotion.



Lockdown and Postnatal Depression: An Evolutionary Perspective

By Dr Emily Emmott




Low social support is a key risk factor for developing postnatal depression (PND). From an evolutionary perspective this is perhaps unsurprising, as humans evolved as cooperative childrearers, inherently reliant on social support to raise children.


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