Primate Conversations

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Sessions

Upcoming Lectures
Past Lectures

26 Jan

The Active Grandparent Hypothesis: physical activity and aging in humans versus other primates

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

2 Feb

Gibbons of Asia

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

9 Feb

Contextualizing the Chimpanzee Niche: How savanna mosaic chimpanzee ecology can offer insights into human evolution and beyond

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

16 Feb

The Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Earliest Australopithecus: New insights from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

23 Feb

Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why Cultural Primatologists and Cultural Anthropologists Didn't get to Talk

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

2 Mar

Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

9 Mar

Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

19 Jan

Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

24 Nov

Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

17 Nov

Pick it, strip it, stick it, store it – The life cycle of a crow’s hook tool

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

3 Nov

Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

27 Oct

The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

20 Oct

Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

13 Oct

The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

6 Oct

Using emerging technology to conserve chimpanzees and biodiversity in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube - available to watch/re-watch online

28 Feb

Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations

Banbury rd 64, Oxford

18 Feb

Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes

Banbury rd 64, Oxford

11 Feb

Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children

Banbury rd 64, Oxford

7 Feb

How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology

64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN

4 Feb

Evolution of the primate vocal tract

Banbury rd 64, Oxford

31 Jan

Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboons

64 Banbury rd

28 Jan

Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa

64 Banbury Road

21 Jan

The discovery of animal cultures and its multifarious implications across biology, psychology, anthropology and conservation

Banbury rd 64, Oxfod

3 Dec

Let's get lost! A GIS study on chimpanzees travelling patterns at Kibale forest, Uganda

64 Banbury Road

19 Nov

The ingenuity of wild chimpanzees: how to find mineral supplements in the Budongo Forest, Uganda

64 Banbury Road

12 Nov

Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and Wildlife Friendly practices among farmers at Cipaganti, Java, to protect local biodiversity

64 Banbury Road

5 Nov

Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?

64 Banbury Road

29 Oct

Large-scale gorilla society

64 Banbury Road

22 Oct

Primate Classic Conversations

64 Banbury Road

15 Oct

Primates and Popcorn

64 Banbury Road

3 Jun

Intraspecific Behavioural Variation in Chimpanzees

64 Banbury Road

24 May

Social Cognition

64 Banbury Road

20 May

Hominin Hips: The Old and The New

64 Banbury Road

15 May

Are we asking questions that can be adressed scientifically?

64 Banbury Road

8 May

Primates and popcorn - Screening of Jane

64 Banbury Road

6 Mar

Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation

64 Banbury Road

28 Feb

Atapuerca: one million years of hominin evolution

The Pauling Centre

27 Feb

Understanding and Living with Giants: Seeking ways for People and Elephants to Coexist in Gorongosa National Park

64 Banbury Road

20 Feb

Culture as a life-history character in hominins and other primates

64 Banbury Road

6 Feb

What’s with the long face? Analysing craniofacial diversification in baboons (genus Papio)

64 Banbury Road

30 Jan

The ice-breaker effect: How do humans create and maintain social bonds?

64 Banbury Road

23 Jan

A tribute to David Attenborough

64 Banbury Road

16 Jan

The Natural History of Jealousy

64 Banbury Road

27 Nov

Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses.

64 Banbury Road

20 Nov

"Scars are just another kind of memory": Deciphering how wild chimpanzees select tool raw materials

64 Banbury Road

13 Nov

The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations.

64 Banbury Road

6 Nov

Pliocene Diversity: Does Behavioural Evolution Parallel Biological Evolution?

64 Banbury Road

30 Oct

A different view of recent human origins.

64 Banbury Road

23 Oct

Mozambique in Island Africa?

64 Banbury Road

16 Oct

Mechanisms of Social Bonding: Dance and the 'Synchrony Effect'

64 Banbury Road

9 Oct

Human evolution: the panin perspective

64 Banbury Road

23 May

Self-domestication in humans and other primates

TBC

7 May

Action Copying and Social Bonding: Insights from Infants and Children with Autism SD

64 Banbury Road

22 Feb

Primate analogues for modelling dietary adaptation

64 Banbury Road

15 Feb

Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution.

64 Banbury Road

8 Feb

Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence

64 Banbury Road

18 Jan

Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments

64 Banbury Road

23 Nov

Investigating the origins of human material culture in children

64 Banbury Road

16 Nov

Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

2 Nov

It's not all fun and games: social complexity and play behaviour in wild bonobos (Wamba, DRC)

64 Banbury Road

19 Oct

Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

12 Oct

Primate Conversations Seminar: The role of ritual and religion in the evolution of social complexity.

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

10 May

Primate Conversations Seminar: What's so social about primate sociality?

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd

15 Feb

Guest Primate Conversations. The origin and evolution of Neotropical primates.

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

8 Feb

Guest Primate Conversations. Gestural communication of the great apes.

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

1 Feb

Guest Primate Conversations. Older than the Oldowan: Excavations, experiments, and expectations.

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

21 May

Guest Primate Conversations. Chimpanzee Laterality Redux: Why Methods Matter

ICEA, 64, Banbury Rd.

Primate Conversations

Our lab runs a popular weekly event, during term time, which is co-organised by graduate students. It is an informal and child friendly setting, where we discuss recent research or have research seminars. All welcome!

Primate Conversations = Diversity in Speakers + Audience + Question asking & Child/Family Friendly.

Sessions

The Active Grandparent Hypothesis: physical activity and aging in humans versus other primates

Gibbons of Asia

Contextualizing the Chimpanzee Niche: How savanna mosaic chimpanzee ecology can offer insights into human evolution and beyond

The Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Earliest Australopithecus: New insights from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why Cultural Primatologists and Cultural Anthropologists Didn't get to Talk

Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures

Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality

Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology

Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar

Pick it, strip it, stick it, store it – The life cycle of a crow’s hook tool

Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system

The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution

Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective

The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates

Survival of the friendliest: Convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans?

A Pan-African Perspective: Chimpanzee behavioural diversity across their range

In Praise of Folly: Play as a Window into Primate Cognition

Using emerging technology to conserve chimpanzees and biodiversity in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea

Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations

Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes

Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children

How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology

Evolution of the primate vocal tract

Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboons

Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa

The discovery of animal cultures and its multifarious implications across biology, psychology, anthropology and conservation

Let's get lost! A GIS study on chimpanzees travelling patterns at Kibale forest, Uganda

The ingenuity of wild chimpanzees: how to find mineral supplements in the Budongo Forest, Uganda

Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and Wildlife Friendly practices among farmers at Cipaganti, Java, to protect local biodiversity

Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?

Large-scale gorilla society

Primate Classic Conversations

Primates and Popcorn

Intraspecific Behavioural Variation in Chimpanzees

Social Cognition

Hominin Hips: The Old and The New

Are we asking questions that can be adressed scientifically?

Primates and popcorn - Screening of Jane

Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation

Atapuerca: one million years of hominin evolution

Understanding and Living with Giants: Seeking ways for People and Elephants to Coexist in Gorongosa National Park

Culture as a life-history character in hominins and other primates

What’s with the long face? Analysing craniofacial diversification in baboons (genus Papio)

The ice-breaker effect: How do humans create and maintain social bonds?

A tribute to David Attenborough

The Natural History of Jealousy

Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses.

"Scars are just another kind of memory": Deciphering how wild chimpanzees select tool raw materials

The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations.

Pliocene Diversity: Does Behavioural Evolution Parallel Biological Evolution?

A different view of recent human origins.

Mozambique in Island Africa?

Mechanisms of Social Bonding: Dance and the 'Synchrony Effect'

Human evolution: the panin perspective

Self-domestication in humans and other primates

Action Copying and Social Bonding: Insights from Infants and Children with Autism SD

Primate analogues for modelling dietary adaptation

Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution.

Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence

Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments

Investigating the origins of human material culture in children

Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates

It's not all fun and games: social complexity and play behaviour in wild bonobos (Wamba, DRC)

Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture

Primate Conversations Seminar: The role of ritual and religion in the evolution of social complexity.

Primate Conversations Seminar: What's so social about primate sociality?

Guest Primate Conversations. The origin and evolution of Neotropical primates.

Guest Primate Conversations. Gestural communication of the great apes.

Guest Primate Conversations. Older than the Oldowan: Excavations, experiments, and expectations.

Guest Primate Conversations. Chimpanzee Laterality Redux: Why Methods Matter

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