"Paul Gignac presented his research on crocodile feeding at The Living World lecture series presented by the Ecology and Evolution department. The talk took place on September 21. See details here."
"VERTEBRATE RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS"
Dr. Beth Brainerd
Brown University
"MIOCENE APES AND EARLY HOMININ LOCOMOTOR EVOLUTION:
A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE HAND"
Dr. Sergio Almecija
Stony Brook University
"LIFE IN SLOW MOTION: ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND LIFE HISTORY IN HUMANS AND OTHER PRIMATES"
Dr. Herman Pontzer
Hunter College
"EVOLUTION OF PRIMATE VISION"
Dr. Chris Kirk
University of Texas, Austin
Paul Gignac discuss science and crocodile evolution at Science on Tap. Sponsored by the Center for Communicating Science See it here.
June 21, 2012
"EYE GROWTH IN PRIMATES AND HOMOLOGY OF THE POSTEROLATERAL ORBIT"
Dr. Tim Smith
Slippery Rock University
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
"RECONSTRUCTING PHYLOGENY FROM MORPHOLOGY: Good News and Bad News"
Dr. Bernard Wood
George Washington University
May 22, 2012
"A WOLFF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING OR A CASE OF CRYING WOLFF? TRABECULAR BONE ADAPTATION AND MORE"
Dr. Meir Barak
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
May 3, 2012
"Body Shape in Vertebrates: Integrating Evolutionary, Developmental, and Functional Morphology"
Dr. Andrea Ward
Adelphi University
May 2, 2012"Skills, Oldowan Stone Tools and Cognitive Abilities - The View from Hadar"
Dr. Erella Hovers
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Biogeography and Phylogenetic Relationships of North African Miocene and Pliocene Old World Monkeys"
Dr. Brenda Benefit
New Mexico State Universary
April 4, 2012
"Title: TBD"
Dr. Ken Rose
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
March 9, 2012
"How hip is human life history?"
Dr. Holly M. Dunsworth
University of Rhode Island
March 2, 2012
"Evolutionary Origins of Technological Behaviour: A Primate Archaeology Approach to Chimpanzees"
Dr. Susan Carvalho
University of Cambridge
February 16, 2012
"Fossil, molecular, and developmental approaches to pancrustacean phylogeny"
Dr. Joe Wolfe
Department of Geology
Yale University
"The Ice-Age Dispersal of Humans to the Americas: Do Stones, Bones, and Genes Tell the Same Story?"
Dr. Ted Goebel
Texas A & M
February 8, 2012
"Population dynamics in the Southern African Holocene: Human Burials from the West Coast"
Dr. Susan Pfeiffer
University of Toronto
"Tb or not Tb: a Case for Leptomeningitis tuberculosa in the First Homo erectus from Kocabaş, Denizli (Turkey) and its implications for temperate migrations"
John Kappelman
November 18, 2011
University of Texas- Austin
October 21, 2011
Chris Nasrallah
UC Berkeley
October 27, 2011
"Evaluating Hypotheses for the Early Diversification of Dinosaurs"
Randall Irmis
Utah Museum of Natural History
October 31, 2011
Max Langer
Universidade de Sao Paulo
"DID COLD CLIMATES STRESS NEANDERTALS?"
Jamie Melichar Hodgkins
Arizona State University
May 13, 2011
Anthony Di Fiore
New York University
May 13, 2011
AGENT-BASED MODELING IN PRIMATOLOGYAnthony Di Fiore
New York University
May 16, 2011
WILLIAM H. KIMBEL
Arizona State University
March 21, 2011
"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES 1.3 MILLION YEARS MAKE?TIMESCALES AND VARIABILITY IN HOMININ TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGIES IN THE JORDAN RIFT VALLEY"
JOHN SHEA
Stony Brook University
March 14, 2011
"DATING MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND EARLY HERDING AROUND LAKE TURKANA, NORTHWEST KENYA"
LISA HILDEBRAND
Stony Brook University
February 1, 2011
"Biomechanics and the Ontogeny of Feeding in theAmerican Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
DR. Paul Gignac
Stony Brook University
Jack Conrad,
George Washington University
November 12
"The Evolution of Growth and Metabolism in Archosaurs"
Sarah Werning,
UC Berkeley
Dispersion, Endemism and Primates: Mammalian Distribution in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa
Kaye Reed
National Science Foundation
What Can Isotopes Say About Environment of Human Evolution
Thure Cerling
University of Utah
September 27, 2010
Diet, Dentition and Bite Forces
Peter Lucas
George Washington University
September 22, 2010
The Anatomy and Evolution of Human Running
Daniel Lieberman
Harvard University
September 21, 2010
Submarine Monkeys: Underwater Fossils from the Caribbean
Alfred Rosenberger,
Brooklyn College, CUNY
May 11, 2010
Where GIS meets paleontology: ongoing work at Ileret, Koobi Fora
Dr. Francis Kirera
Turkana Basin Institute
May 5, 2010
Gravity, grasping and gait: the biomechanics of arboreal balance
Dr. Jesse Young
Northeastern Ohio Universities, College of Medicine
May 4, 2010
The newest fossils from South Africa - Australopithecus sebida
Dr. Kristian Carlson
Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand
Incoming Ph.D. candidate, Simone Hoffman, has been awarded the prestigious Turkana Basin Fellowship
April 29, 2010
Daniel Lieberman
Harvard University
April 20, 2010
Possoms, Opossums, and No Possums: the biogeography of marsupials
Robin Beck
American Museum of Natural History
April 14, 2010
Dr. Doug Boyer will be awarded the NAGS Doctoral Dissertation Award in Montreal.
March 26, 2010
Steve King
Stony Brook University
March 25, 2010
Simiyu Wandiba
Nairobi University
Feb. 5, 2010
Intimacy, Infidelity and the Individual: Biocultural Perspectives
Justin R. Garcia, Ph.D. candidate
Binghamton University
Jan. 20, 2010
Provost's Lecture Series
Crocodyliforms and Cretaceous Gondwanan Biogeography
Wang Chapel
Joseph Sertich, Anatomical Sciences, Ph.D. candidate
Dec. 15, 2009
Morphological Pitfalls within Primate Phylogeny
Dr. Dan Gebo
Northern Illinois University
Dec. 14, 2009
Primate Origins, Human Origins, and The End of Higher Taxa
Dr. Matt Cartmill
Boston University
Dec. 10, 2009
NEOGENE LAKES IN THE TURKANA BASIN
Dr. Craig Feibel
Rutgers University
Nov. 19, 2009
EARLY PLEISTOCENE CERCOPITHECIDS IN THE LEVANTINE CORRIDOR:Dispersal routes, Biochronology and Paleoecology
Dr. Miriam Belmaker
Harvard University