Speaker: Dr. Robert Shave, School of Health & Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia
Outline: Cardiac structural and functional remodeling in response to athletic training is a well-described phenomenon in human athletes. Using auscultation, percussion and palpation physicians as early as the 1890s demonstrated increased cardiac dimensions and athletic bradycardia. Subsequently, imaging technologies have enabled the detailed characterization of the human athlete’s heart. However, few of these studies consider the evolutionary...
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HEB Professor Terry Capellini will deliver a special lecture that will discuss how evolution targeted our prenatal development to shape our skeletons and why we get specific skeletal diseases.
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Speaker: Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen
Sir Simon Philip Baron-CohenFBA FBPsS FMedSci is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the director of the university's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College.
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"Investigations into the Adaptive Value and Biological Consequences of Positively-Selected Neanderthal Introgressed Genetic Variation in Modern Humans"
Evelyn Jagoda, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
"Investigating the Evolution of the Scapula and Pelvis via Developmental Genetics"
Mariel Young, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Wed. April 28, 10:00-11:00 am EST
Please RSVP to Mallory McCoy for the zoom link & password (mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu).
Abstract: Selective pressures associated with bipedality and childbirth have acted on the pelvis throughout the human lineage, leading to dramatic morphological differences between modern human and...
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Title: "A rat in hand: an experimental animal model of domestication"
Speaker: Professor Nandini Singh, Dept of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento
Abstract:
Dmitry Belyaev’s domestication experiments conducted on a number of species, most notably on silver foxes, have demonstrated that selecting for tame behaviors was the precursor to all genotypic and phenotypic traits associated with domestication. It has also been proposed that humans are a “self-domesticated” species. In...
What: HEB graduate program info session and virtual open house. Meet with faculty, chat with graduate students, learn about our program, and get all the information you need to apply!
Who: Anyone interested in deeply exploring how human evolution shapes our biology and culture. If you’ve ever...