Primate Conversations returns for Trinity Term 2022
Our virtual seminar series returns with two final talks for the 21/22 academic year! We will be joined by Michelle Brown on April 26th and Robyn Pickering on May 10th (both 3pm UK time) streamed 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
(Almost) all of our Lab members pictured during the EFP-PSGB 2019 conference
We were very happy to co-host the memorable event in Oxford with our colleagues at Oxford Brookes University on behalf of the European Federation of Primatology and the Primate Society of Great Britain