• 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

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 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

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019

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

Monday 20 May 2019

• 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

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

Monday 3 June 2019

• 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

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019

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

Tuesday 5 November 2019

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020

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

Tuesday 3 March 2020

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020

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

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 26 October 2021

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

Tuesday 2 November 2021

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

Tuesday 9 November 2021

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

Tuesday 16 November 2021

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

Tuesday 23 November 2021

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

Tuesday 30 November 2021

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

Tuesday 18 January 2022

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

Tuesday 25 January 2022

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

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 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

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

Tuesday 15 February 2022

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

Tuesday 22 February 2022

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

Tuesday 1 March 2022

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

Tuesday 8 March 2022

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