• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Dr Susana Carvalho (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
• Timing: 3pm on YouTube
• Web Address: https://primobevolab.web.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Human evolution: the panin perspective
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Mechanisms of social bonding: dance and the 'Synchrony Effect'
  Bronwyn Tarr (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study Toulouse)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Mozambique in Island Africa
  Jonathan Kingdon (WildCRU, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A different view of recent human origins
  Eleanor Scerri (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Pliocene diversity: does behavioural evolution parallel biological evolution?
  David R. Braun (The George Washington University)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations
  Anna Nekaris (MSc Primate Conservation and Oxford Brookes University)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Stone-tool-using monkeys in coastal habitats: a new model system for palaeoanthropology
  Amanda Tan (University of Durham)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses
  Maria Ferreira de Silva (Universities of Porto, Portugal, and Cardiff. Paleo Primate Project Gorongosa, Mozambique)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Primates and Popcorn: Screening of 'Jane'
  N/A

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Are we asking questions that can be addressed scientifically?
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Hominin hips: the old and the new
  Ashley Hammond (Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator of Biological Anthropology, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History)

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Social cognition
  Robert Seyfarth (Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Intraspecific behavioural variation in chimpanzees
  Crickette Sanz (Associate Professor of Physical Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, Co-director of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project)

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Primates and Popcorn: a film screening of Virunga (von Einsiedel, 2014)
  TBA

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Imanishi and the legacy of Japanese primatology
  Film screening

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Large-scale gorilla society
  Robin Morrison (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund)

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?
  Shirley Strum (UC San Diego)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and wildlife friendly practices among farmers at Cigapanti, Java, to protect local biodiversity
  Marco Campera (Oxford Brookes University)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The ingenuity of wild chimpanzees: how to find mineral supplements in the Budongo Forest, Uganda
  Vernon Reynolds (Oxford Emeritus)

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Isotope-based reconstructions of early hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa CANCELLED
  CANCELLED - this event has been cancelled
  Tina Lüdecke (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Let's get lost! A GIS study on chimpanzee travelling patterns at Kibale forest, Uganda
  New location: the Maplethorpe Seminar Room, St Hugh's College
  Paco Bertolani (Freelance primate conservation specialist)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Discovery of Animal Cultures and its Multifarious Implications across Biology, Psychology, Anthropology and Conservation
  Andrew Whiten (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa
  Tina Lüdecke (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Evolution of the primate vocal tract: the known, the unknown and the unknowable
  Thomas O'Mahoney (Anglia Ruskin University)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children
  Theo Toppe (Leipzig University)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes
  Kimberley Hockings (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Primate Classic Conversations: Konrad Lorenz, pioneer ethologist
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Various Discussants

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Darwin's Manufactory Hypothesis Revisited
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Laura Van Holstein (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Gorongosa Research Day
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Active Grandparent Hypothesis: Physical activity and aging in humans versus other primates
  See this webpage for YouTube joining link https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-active-grandparent-hypothesis-physical-activity-and-aging-in-humans-versus-other-primates
  Daniel Lieberman

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Gibbons of Asia
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/gibbons-of-asia
  Susan Cheyne

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Contextualizing the Chimpanzee Niche: How savanna mosaic chimpanzee ecology can offer to insights into human evolution & beyond
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/contextualizing-the-chimpanzee-niche-how-savanna-mosaic-chimpanzee-ecology-can-offer-to-insigh
  Erin Wessling

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Earliest Australopithecus: New insights from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia
  Please visit this webpage for YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-paleobiology-paleoecology-and-biogeography-of-the-earliest-australopithecus-new-insights-f
  I Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why cultural primatologists and cultural anthropologists didn't get to talk
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/making-up-for-a-missed-encounter-why-cultural-primatologists-and-cultural-anthropologists-didn
  Nicolas Langlitz

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/meaning-and-context-in-great-ape-gestures
  Kirsty Graham

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/ravens-crows-and-co.-a-new-model-taxon-for-investigating-the-evolution-of-prosociality
  Lisa Horn

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Fossil apes and human evolution
  Sergio Almécija (American Museum of Natural History)

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Reinventing the framework for leave-taking: an example using wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
  Lucy Baehren

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Exploration and interpretation of East Africa's plant fossil record with emphasis on the Miocene
  TBA

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Kinda baboons at Kasanka National Park: past, present and future
  Jason Kamilar

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Bringing primate technological landscapes to life using computer simulation
  Katarina Almeida-Warren

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The shape of human evolution
  Carol Ward

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Did hominins impact carnivore diversity in the African Plio-Pleistocene, and if so how and why?
  Lars Werdelin

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Dynamics of large-scale ecological restoration: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
  Robert Pringle (Princeton University)

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - A multi-level approach to Gorongosa baboons' landscapes of fear
  Philippa Hammond (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Community empowerment for the conservation of Critically Endangered Primates in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire: The role of transdisciplinary research
  Inza Koné

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Experiencing the natural world: Synthesizing art and science
  Elodie Freymann (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Cross-border collaboration for research and conservation of critically endangered primates
  Andie Ang

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Faunal evolution and environmental change through time in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania
  CANCELLED
  Nancy Stevens

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - From social networks to social learning in wild vervet monkeys
  Charlotte Canteloup

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Competitive dynamics in a frugivore primate guild
  Michelle Brown