Colloquium Lectures

Speaker: Dr. Ammie Kalan, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Date/Time: Thursday, November 18 at 12:00 pm (noon) Abstract: The Pan African Programme: the Cultured Chimpanzee ('PanAf') has collected data on over 40 wild chimpanzee communities from...

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...

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.

Speaker: Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen FBA 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...

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...

Speaker: Zeray Alemseged, PhD Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago

Speaker: Dr. Fenna Krienen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Abstract: The expansion of the neocortex in primates has led to the emergence of brain regions that have specialized functions and connectivity, are important...

Guest speaker Professor Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara, will deliver our first HEB Colloquium talk in March. A title and abstract for this talk are forthcoming.

Dr. Hugo Reyes-Centeno Scientific Coordinator, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools”, University of Tubingen Despite consensus on the emergence of modern humans in Africa and their subsequent dispersal into the rest of the world...

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Young Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco & Program Director, MA in Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco Abstract: How development structures...