Friday, September 6, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Amato, Northwestern University
Title: Using comparative primate research to enrich our understanding of human-microbiome interactions
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Abstract: Interactions with the gut microbiota represent an important pathway through which host physiology is shaped. While biomedical studies of disease have provided insight into the mechanisms through which the gut microbiome influences human physiology, comparative research with non-human primates can provide ecological and evolutionary perspectives that improve our holistic understanding of human-microbe interactions. To begin to build this understanding, I integrate data describing evolutionary trends in human diet with diet and gut microbiome data from extant, non-human primates. I explore how emerging patterns associated with processed diets, fiber, and fermented foods can be used as a foundation for further research in diet-gut microbiota-health dynamics. I also explore how the gut microbes of different primate species affect host physiology and discuss implications for the evolution of unique human physiological traits.
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
Friday, October 4, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
CHES Zelnick-Belzberg Night
Awardee and Guest Speaker: Rebecca Brittain, Yale & Jagiellonian University; PhD Rutgers University NB
Time: 4:00-9:00 pm
Location: Trayes Hall
Friday, October 11, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Matt Sponheimer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Dinner with Lucy: What does Paranthropus boisei bring to the table?
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Friday, November 8, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Romm Lewkowicz, Max Plank/CUNY
Title:
Time: 12:30-1:30
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by AGSA
Friday, December 6, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Gilbert Tostevin, University of MInnesota
Title: Geoarchaeology & the Study of Neanderthal-Modern Human Contact
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Friday, December 13, 2024
Friday, January 17, 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Teresa Steele, University of California, Davis
Title: The middle stone age from Varsche Rivier 003, South Africa: Environmental variation, innovation, and behavioral diversity
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Abstract: The Middle Stone Age of Africa is significant because it provides the context for the evolution of all living people. During this time and within this technocomplex, human innovations appear, which indicate the early evolution of many behaviors that are often seen as reflecting humans’ complex cognition and sociality. Historically, much of the evidence comes from archaeological sites situated in the Fynbos of South Africa’s southern and southwestern coasts. To explore diversity within the Middle Stone Age, our team initiated excavations at Varsche Rivier 003 to investigate adaptations to the arid Succulent Karoo. In deposits dating from 92-80 thousand years ago we found innovations that distinguished these populations from contemporaries living 100 km to the south in more hospitable environments. However, with subsequent environmental changes, the people using Varsche Rivier 003 employed technologies similar to the people living further in the south, indicating connections between the populations. These results provide the opportunity to further consider the contexts for Middle Stone Age innovation and cultural transmission, in southern Africa and beyond. They can be compared with other innovations found elsewhere in southern Africa, as well as in northern and eastern Africa.
Friday, February 7, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
Speaker: Amy Zhang, New York University
Title: TBA
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Livingston Campus, Room TBA
Co-Sponsored by Anthropology, Geography, and the Bloustein School
Friday, February 21, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Shara Bailey, NYU
Title: Neanderthals and other extinct humans: Tales from the teeth
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Friday, March 7, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Coren Lee Apicella, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Hunter-gatherer insights on the puzzle of cooperation
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Friday, April 11, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Lewis, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Male intrasexual relationships: Can males be friends in a variable social system
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building, Douglass, RAB-001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Friday, May 2, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
