Past Events

Event Type

Series Semester

Apr 30 2021

Water insecurity and Human Biology: Environmental Exposures, Nutritional Adaptations, and Health Implications

Information: Friday, April 30, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Asher Yoel Rosinger (Penn State University)

Apr 16 2021

Revealing the African roots of Homo sapiens

Information: Friday, April 16, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Brenna Henn (University of California, Davis)

Mar 26 2021

The Changing Landscape of Hominin Evolution—A View from Afar

Information: Friday, March 26, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Chris Campisano (Arizona State University)

Mar 12 2021

The Promises and Challenges of Primate Paleogenomics: Insights from the Nuclear Genome of a Large Extinct Lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

Information: Friday, March 12, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Stephanie Marciniak (Penn State)

Feb 26 2021

A General Model for the Paleoecology of the Now Submerged Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, an Extinct Ecosystem Crucial to Modern Human Origins

Information: Friday, February 26, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Curtis Marean (Arizona State University)

May 01 2020

Adaptive Evolution in African Rainforest Hunter- Gatherer Populations

Information: Friday, May 1, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Christina Bergey (Rutgers University)

Apr 03 2020

The Changing Landscape of Hominin Evolution – A View from Afar

Information: Friday, April 3, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Chris Campisano (Arizona State University)

Feb 28 2020

What Ernst Mayr Didn’t Know: Insights into Baboons and Other Primates from Whole Genome Sequencing

Information: Friday, February 28, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Jeffrey Rogers (Baylor College of Medicine)

Feb 14 2020

Genetic Variation in Howler Monkey TLR7 and TLR8 and Potential Implications for Susceptibility to Yellow Fever Virus

Information: Friday, February 14, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Nicole Torosin (Dept. Genetics, Rutgers University)

Feb 07 2020

Microarchaeology and the Underlying Science

Information: Friday, February 7, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Steve Weiner (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Jan 24 2020

Dogs and People and Dingoes

Information: Friday, January 24, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Patricia Shipman (Pennsylvania State University)

Nov 01 2019

The Curiosity Conundrum: What Orangutan Curiosity and Intelligence Tell Us About Human Evolution

Information: Friday, November 1, 2019; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Carel van Schaik (University of Zürich)

Sep 27 2019

Behavioral Adaptation in Highly Changing Environments: The Role of Uncertainty Estimation and Natural Variability in Fishing Captures

Information: Friday, September 27, 2019; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Victoria Ramenzoni (Rutgers University)

Sep 19 2019

Grad Affiliate Fred Foster publishes paper on dental evolution

Information: Thursday, September 19, 2019; General Events; Event Short Description
CHES PhD student Fred Foster just published with coauthor P.J. Constantino a paper testing the hypot

Apr 19 2019

Sex Differences in Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Space Use and Spatial Cognition, Brian Wood (University of California, Los Angeles)

Information: Friday, April 19, 2019; CHES Lecture Series 2018-2019; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Apr 05 2019

The Evolution of Morality, Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)

Information: Friday, April 5, 2019; CHES Lecture Series 2018-2019; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Mar 08 2019

Hips in Human Evolution, Ashley Hammond (American Museum of Natural History)

Information: Friday, March 8, 2019; CHES Lecture Series 2018-2019; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Feb 01 2019

The Sensory Ecology of Food Detection and Selection by Wild White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys, Amanda Melin (University of Calgary)

Information: Friday, February 1, 2019; CHES Lecture Series 2018-2019; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Nov 30 2018

Is the Gut Microbiome Part of the Missing Genetic Dark Matter? Liping Zhao (Rutgers University)

Information: Friday, November 30, 2018; CHES Lecture Series 2018-2019; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Nov 14 2018

Advances in Paleoecology: 2nd Lembersky Conference in Human Evolutionary Studies

Information: Wednesday, November 14, 2018; General Events; Event Short Description
Advances in Paleoecology 2nd Lembersky Conference in Human Evolutionary Studies The Center for Human