Speaker: Dr. Andrew Moeller, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Abstract: Abstract: Mammals harbor complex gut bacterial communities that are deeply integrated with their hosts’ phenotypes and fitness, but the...
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Title: Paleoanthropology and Paleoarchaeology in the southernmost Rift of eastern Africa Abstract: The East African Rift Valley System is famous for fossil and...
Speaker: Dr. Enquye Negash, Postdoctoral Scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University Title: " Modern African ecosystems as analogues: Implications for hominin environments" Abstract: Environmental...
Speaker: Dr. Scott Blumenthal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon Abstract: A fundamental challenge of human evolutionary studies is understanding the role of climatic and ecosystem change in shaping hominin biology and behavior...