(Almost) all our lab got together in Arnhem for our fist conference post-lockdown. We had a great time listening to some fantastic talks, catching up with colleagues, and exploring Burgers' Zoo.
Welcome (back) to our latest Post-Doc & Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dr. Katarina Almeida-Warren!
Our first DPhil, Dr. Katarina Almeida-Warren, has just been awarded the prestigious Leverhume Early Career Fellowship - Double Congratulations! She will be returning to our lab as a post-doctoral fellow in November 2022 to work on her exciting new project - Primate Archaeology beyond Technology! We are thrilled!
Primate Conversations 2021/22 series available online
Our virtual seminar series may be over for the year, but you can stream all talks over on our Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab YouTube channel
Our first post-doctoral fellows have conducted outstanding research and moved on to stellar positions - please contact our lab head, Professor Susana Carvalho, if you wish to discuss possible post-doctoral research projects with us
Teaching the next generation of primatologists & paleoanthropologists
This year, Archaeology & Anthropology undergraduates at the University of Oxford had the opportunity to examine casts of fossil hominin skulls in one of the beautiful School of Anthropology gardens as part of their human origins course with Drs Susana Carvalho and René Bobe
Getting creative for our Spring 2021 Lab group photo
Even though we have not been able to recreate our usual Lab group photo since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still keeping the tradition going and supporting one another virtually
Baboons of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
A number of our Lab members study troops of baboons in Gorongosa - you can read about some of their research on our projects pages
A uniquely interdisiplinary experience, providing students with training in primatology, palaeoanthropology, archaeology, geology, speleology and ecology within one of the richest ecosystems in Africa, Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique
Vervet monkeys of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
One of our study species is the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), pictured here feeding on the flowers of the flame creeper (Combretum microphyllum) in Gorongosa - photo by Lee Bennett
The Paleo-Primate Project team surveying for fossils in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Learn all about the team's research in the Gorongosa Rift Valley through the project page below
