Primate Conversations

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Sessions

Upcoming Lectures
Past Lectures

26 Oct

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

2 Nov

Bonnie Jacobs: "Exploration and interpretation of East Africa's plant fossil record with emphasis on the Miocene"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

9 Nov

Jason Kamilar: "Kinda baboons at Kasanka National Park: Past, present, and future"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

16 Nov

Katarina Almeida-Warren: "Bringing primate technological landscapes to life using computer simulation"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

23 Nov

Carol Ward: "The shape of human evolution"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

30 Nov

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

19 Oct

Sergio Almécija: "Fossil apes and human evolution"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

12 Oct

Enquye Negash: "Woody cover and hominin environments"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

25 May

Shahrina Chowdhury: "Physiological challenges for baboons in anthropogenic landscapes"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

18 May

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

2 Mar

Kirsty Graham: "Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

23 Feb

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

16 Feb

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

9 Feb

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

2 Feb

Susan Cheyne: "Gibbons of Asia"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

26 Jan

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

19 Jan

Kathelijne Koops: "Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

24 Nov

Seheno Andriantsaralaza: "Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

17 Nov

Barbara Klump: "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

Amanda Tan: "Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

27 Oct

Laura van Holstein: "The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

20 Oct

Jose Joordens: "Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

13 Oct

Michael Huffman: "The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

6 Oct

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

30 Jun

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

23 Jun

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

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

16 Jun

Maegan Fitzgerald: "Using emerging technology to conserve chimpanzees and biodiversity in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea"

Primate Conversations virtual seminar via YouTube

28 Feb

Simon Pooley: "Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

18 Feb

Kimberley Hockings: "Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

11 Feb

Theo Toppe: "Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

4 Feb

Thomas O'Mahoney: "Evolution of the primate vocal tract"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

31 Jan

Alecia Carter: "Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboons"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

28 Jan

Tina Lüdecke: "Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

21 Jan

Andrew Whiten: "The discovery of animal cultures and its multifarious implications across biology, psychology, anthropology and conservation"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

3 Dec

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

19 Nov

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

12 Nov

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

5 Nov

Shirley Strum: "Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

29 Oct

Robin Morrison: "Large-scale gorilla society"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

22 Oct

Primate Classic Conversations: Discussing Kinji Imanishi and the legacy of Japanese primatology

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

15 Oct

Primates and Popcorn: Virunga (2014)

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

3 Jun

Crickette Sanz: "Intraspecific Behavioural Variation in Chimpanzees"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

24 May

Robert Seyfarth: "Social Cognition"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

20 May

Ashley Hammond: "Hominin Hips: The Old and The New"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

15 May

Bernard Wood: "Are we asking questions that can be adressed scientifically?"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

8 May

Primates and Popcorn: Jane (2017)

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

6 Mar

Alex Alvergne: "Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

28 Feb

María Martinón Torres: "Atapuerca: one million years of hominin evolution"

Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

27 Feb

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

20 Feb

Matt Grove: "Culture as a life-history character in hominins and other primates"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

6 Feb

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

30 Jan

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

23 Jan

Primates and Popcorn: Life in the Trees (1979)

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

16 Jan

Alex Mielke: "The Natural History of Jealousy"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

27 Nov

Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva: "Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

20 Nov

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

13 Nov

Anna Nekaris: "The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

6 Nov

David R. Braun: "Pliocene Diversity: Does Behavioural Evolution Parallel Biological Evolution?"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

30 Oct

Eleanor Scerri: "A different view of recent human origins"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

23 Oct

Jonathan Kingdon: "Mozambique in Island Africa?"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

16 Oct

Bronwyn Tarr: "Mechanisms of Social Bonding: Dance and the Synchrony Effect"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

9 Oct

Bernard Wood: "Human evolution: the panin perspective"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

23 May

Richard Wrangham: "Self-domestication in humans and other primates"

Nissan Lecture Theatre, Winchester Road, Oxford

7 May

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

22 Feb

Caroline Phillips: "Primate analogues for modelling dietary adaptation"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

15 Feb

Rob Foley: "Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

8 Feb

Scott Blumenthal: "Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

18 Jan

Peter Andrews: "Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

23 Nov

Eva Reindl: "Investigating the origins of human material culture in children"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

16 Nov

Lydia Luncz: "Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

2 Nov

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

19 Oct

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

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

12 Oct

Patrick Savage: "Primate Conversations Seminar: The role of ritual and religion in the evolution of social complexity"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

10 May

Robin Dunbar: "What's so social about primate sociality?"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

15 Feb

Marcelo Tejedor: "The origin and evolution of Neotropical primates"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

8 Feb

Richard Byrne: "Gestural communication of the great apes"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

1 Feb

David R. Braun: "Older than the Oldowan: Excavations, experiments, and expectations"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

21 May

Linda Marchant: "Chimpanzee Laterality Redux: Why Methods Matter"

64 Banbury Road, Oxford

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

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

Bonnie Jacobs: "Exploration and interpretation of East Africa's plant fossil record with emphasis on the Miocene"

Jason Kamilar: "Kinda baboons at Kasanka National Park: Past, present, and future"

Katarina Almeida-Warren: "Bringing primate technological landscapes to life using computer simulation"

Carol Ward: "The shape of human evolution"

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

Sergio Almécija: "Fossil apes and human evolution"

Enquye Negash: "Woody cover and hominin environments"

Shahrina Chowdhury: "Physiological challenges for baboons in anthropogenic landscapes"

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka: "Conserving Gorillas Through a One Health Approach"

Science Writing for the Public: Q&A with Kate Wong

Natalia Albuquerque: "Emotional and social regulation in capuchin monkeys"

Julie Lesnik: "Edible Insects and Human Evolution"

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

Kirsty Graham: "Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures"

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

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

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

Susan Cheyne: "Gibbons of Asia"

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

Kathelijne Koops: "Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology"

Seheno Andriantsaralaza: "Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar"

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

Amanda Tan: "Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system"

Laura van Holstein: "The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution"

Jose Joordens: "Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective"

Michael Huffman: "The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates"

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

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

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

Maegan Fitzgerald: "Using emerging technology to conserve chimpanzees and biodiversity in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea"

Simon Pooley: "Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations"

Kimberley Hockings: "Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes"

Theo Toppe: "Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children"

Thomas O'Mahoney: "Evolution of the primate vocal tract"

Alecia Carter: "Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboons"

Tina Lüdecke: "Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa"

Andrew Whiten: "The discovery of animal cultures and its multifarious implications across biology, psychology, anthropology and conservation"

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

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

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

Shirley Strum: "Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?"

Robin Morrison: "Large-scale gorilla society"

Primate Classic Conversations: Discussing Kinji Imanishi and the legacy of Japanese primatology

Primates and Popcorn: Virunga (2014)

Crickette Sanz: "Intraspecific Behavioural Variation in Chimpanzees"

Robert Seyfarth: "Social Cognition"

Ashley Hammond: "Hominin Hips: The Old and The New"

Bernard Wood: "Are we asking questions that can be adressed scientifically?"

Primates and Popcorn: Jane (2017)

Alex Alvergne: "Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation"

María Martinón Torres: "Atapuerca: one million years of hominin evolution"

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

Matt Grove: "Culture as a life-history character in hominins and other primates"

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

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

Primates and Popcorn: Life in the Trees (1979)

Alex Mielke: "The Natural History of Jealousy"

Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva: "Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses"

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

Anna Nekaris: "The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations"

David R. Braun: "Pliocene Diversity: Does Behavioural Evolution Parallel Biological Evolution?"

Eleanor Scerri: "A different view of recent human origins"

Jonathan Kingdon: "Mozambique in Island Africa?"

Bronwyn Tarr: "Mechanisms of Social Bonding: Dance and the Synchrony Effect"

Bernard Wood: "Human evolution: the panin perspective"

Richard Wrangham: "Self-domestication in humans and other primates"

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

Caroline Phillips: "Primate analogues for modelling dietary adaptation"

Rob Foley: "Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution"

Scott Blumenthal: "Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence"

Peter Andrews: "Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments"

Eva Reindl: "Investigating the origins of human material culture in children"

Lydia Luncz: "Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates"

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

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