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Impacts of dietary fat type on energy gain in the human holobiont
April 22, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Zoom - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for the link
Virtual
Impacts of dietary fat type on energy gain in the human holobiont A dissertation defense by Katia Chadaideh, PhD Candidate in HEB Abstract: While different dietary fat types exhibit strong associations with metabolic health, the underlying mechanisms that...

The Cultural Evolution of Political Institutions
April 13, 2022
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2:30PM - 3:30PM EDT
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Zoom - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for the link
Virtual
The Cultural Evolution of Political Institutions A doctoral dissertation defense by Graham Noblit, PhD Candidate in HEB Abstract: Humans, uniquely among organisms, rely on norms, or socially learned rules of behavior enforced by a community. Norms, and...

HEB Colloquium: "Isotopic studies of hominin paleobiology"
February 28, 2022
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2:00PM - 3:00PM EST
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Zoom - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for the link
Virtual
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...

HEB Colloquium: Dr. Yana Kamberov
February 21, 2022
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2:00PM - 3:00PM EST
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Zoom - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for the link
Virtual
Title: Unlocking the secrets of the sweaty, naked ape: A genetic roadmap to the developmental origins, evolutionary history, and regenerative potential of human hair and sweat glands. Abstract: The skin and its major resident appendages, hair follicles...

HEB Colloquium: "Chimpanzee Behavioural Flexibility: A Pan African Perspective"

November 18, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Virtual - RSVP for Zoom Link (mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu)
Virtual
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...

HEB Colloquium: "The role of physical activity in shaping ape and human hearts"
October 21, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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In Person
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 Special Lecture: "How Evolution Shaped the Human Skeleton"
September 9, 2021
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3:30PM - 4:30PM EDT
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Virtual - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for zoom link!
Virtual
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.

HEB Colloquium: "The Pattern Seekers: A new theory of autism and invention"
August 25, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Virtual - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for zoom link!
Virtual
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...