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• Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa: Mozambique
• Projects
• Pliocene Archaeology: Koobi Fora, East Lake Turkana, Kenya
• Chimpanzee technology: Bossou, Guinea, West Africa
• Lab Members
• Graduate Students
• Post-Doctoral Fellows
• Research Affiliates
• Research Assistants & Undergraduate Students
• Primate Conversations
• Robin Dunbar: "What's so social about primate sociality?"
• Linda Marchant: "Chimpanzee Laterality Redux: Why Methods Matter"
• Marcelo Tejedor: "The origin and evolution of Neotropical primates"
• Richard Byrne: "Gestural communication of the great apes"
• David R. Braun: "Older than the Oldowan: Excavations, experiments, and expectations"
• Viewing the Human Mind Through the Study of Chimpanzees
• Events
• Outcomes
• Publications
• Presentations
• Outreach/Media
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• Mind the Rift: Novel insights from the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa
• Patrick Savage: "The role of ritual and religion in the evolution of social complexity"
• Andrea Migliano: "Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture"
• Predators, primates and landscapes of fear
• Lydia Luncz: "Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates"
• Resources
• The McGrew-Anderson Library
• Lab and Field equipment
• Conflict & Cooperation in Bonobos and Chimpanzees: A New Hypothesis
• Isabel Behncke: "It's not all fun and games: social complexity and play behaviour in wild bonobos (Wamba, DRC)"
• Peter Andrews: "Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments"
• Eva Reindl: "Investigating the origins of human material culture in children"
• Life-History, Play and the Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution
• Rob Foley: "Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution"
• Field School
• A month with the Paleo-Primate Project: 28/07/17 to 25/08/17
• Richard Wrangham: "Self-domestication in humans and other primates"
• Scott Blumenthal: "Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence"
• Caroline Phillips: "Primate analogues for modelling dietary adaptation"
• Cannibalism in the Middle Stone Age at Klasies River Main Site, South Africa
• Bahar Tunçgenç: "Action Copying and Social Bonding: Insights from Infants and Children with Autism SD"
• First World Chimpanzee Day
• Bernard Wood: "Human evolution: the panin perspective"
• Lab News
• Our alumni
• Bronwyn Tarr: "Mechanisms of Social Bonding: Dance and the Synchrony Effect"
• Jonathan Kingdon: "Mozambique in Island Africa?"
• Eleanor Scerri: "A different view of recent human origins"
• David R. Braun: "Pliocene Diversity: Does Behavioural Evolution Parallel Biological Evolution?"
• Anna Nekaris: "The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations"
• Alejandra Pascual-Garrido: "Scars are just another kind of memory: Deciphering how wild chimpanzees select tool raw materials"
• Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva: "Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses"
• Primate Conversations 2019
• First paper of the Paleo-Primate Project
• A perspective on 'Did hominins play a role in the loss of megaherbivores?'
• Interview with Susana Carvalho
• Alex Mielke: "The Natural History of Jealousy"
• Primates and Popcorn: Life in the Trees (1979)
• Eiluned Pearce: "The ice-breaker effect: How do humans create and maintain social bonds?"
• Thomas Püschel: "What’s with the long face? Analysing craniofacial diversification in baboons (genus Papio)"
• Matt Grove: "Culture as a life-history character in hominins and other primates"
• Dominique Gonçalves: "Understanding and Living with Giants: Seeking ways for People and Elephants to Coexist in Gorongosa National Park"
• Alex Alvergne: "Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation"
• Adjany Costa: "The Okavango Wilderness Project"
• María Martinón Torres: "Atapuerca: one million years of hominin evolution"
• Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School 2018
• European Federation of Primatology 2019 & the Primate Society of Great Britain Winter meeting
• Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution - Methods Workshop
• Primates and Popcorn: Jane (2017)
• Bernard Wood: "Are we asking questions that can be adressed scientifically?"
• Ashley Hammond: "Hominin Hips: The Old and The New"
• Robert Seyfarth: "Social Cognition"
• Crickette Sanz: "Intraspecific Behavioural Variation in Chimpanzees"
• Our volunteers
• Shirley Strum: "Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?"
• Wenner-Gren Workshop at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
• CADOES: new paper and app by João Coelho
• New paper out on the phenostructure of Gorongosa baboons
• New PPPG podium and poster presentations
• Primate Conversations 2019
• Primates and Popcorn: Virunga (2014)
• Primate Classic Conversations: Discussing Kinji Imanishi and the legacy of Japanese primatology
• Robin Morrison: "Large-scale gorilla society"
• Marco Campera: "Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and Wildlife Friendly practices among farmers at Cipaganti, Java, to protect local biodiversity"
• Vernon Reynolds: "The ingenuity of wild chimpanzees: how to find mineral supplements in the Budongo Forest, Uganda"
• Tina Lüdecke: "Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa"
• Paco Bertolani: "Let's get lost! A GIS study on chimpanzees travelling patterns at Kibale forest, Uganda"
• Isabella's field course in Japan
• Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School 2020
• Primate Conversations Hilary 2020
• Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School 2019
• Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School 2019
• Andrew Whiten: "The discovery of animal cultures and its multifarious implications across biology, psychology, anthropology and conservation"
• Alecia Carter: "Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboons"
• Thomas O'Mahoney: "Evolution of the primate vocal tract"
• Marlee Tucker: "How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology"
• Theo Toppe: "Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children"
• Kimberley Hockings: "Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes"
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - February 2020
• Simon Pooley: "Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations"
• Piece about Gorongosa National Park in WIRED magazine highlights Primatological work lead by Oxford researchers
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - March 2020
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - April 2020
• Lecturers
• Celebrating the non-academic outputs!
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - May 2020
• Maegan Fitzgerald: "Using emerging technology to conserve chimpanzees and biodiversity in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea"
• Alex Mielke: "In Praise of Folly: Play as a Window into Primate Cognition"
• Ammie Kalan: "A Pan-African Perspective: Chimpanzee behavioural diversity across their range"
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - June 2020
• Field Assistants & Technicians
• World Chimpanzee Day 2020
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - July 2020
• Archaeological signatures of chimpanzee perishable technology
• Taxonomic and Ecological Characterisation of Miocene Mammalian Fauna: Gorongosa, Mozambique
• Graduate Student Projects
• Monkeying Around: Complexity, Cognition, and Culture in Primate Play
• Article published by Scientific American refers to the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - August 2020
• Pathways into Academia
• Megan's pathway
• Anonymous Peer Review: Truth or Trolling?
• Brian Hare: "Survival of the friendliest: Convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans?"
• Primate Conversations Michaelmas Term 2020 schedule
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - September 2020
• Michael Huffman: "The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates"
• Jose Joordens: "Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective"
• Laura van Holstein: "The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution"
• Jana's pathway
• Amanda Tan: "Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system"
• Barbara Klump: "Pick it, strip it, stick it, store it – The life cycle of a crow’s hook tool"
• Seheno Andriantsaralaza: "Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar"
• Sophie's pathway
• Alex's pathway
• Elodie's pathway
• Jacinto's pathway
• Lucy's pathway
• Susana's pathway
• Caroline's pathway
• Philippa's pathway
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - October 2020
• Thomas's pathway
• João’s pathway
• Congratulations to Caroline Phillips
• Congratulations to Alejandra Pascual-Garrido
• Primate Conversations Hilary Term 2021
• New publication led by Katarina Almeida-Warren
• Kathelijne Koops: "Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology"
• Daniel Lieberman: "The Active Grandparent Hypothesis: physical activity and aging in humans versus other primates"
• Susan Cheyne: "Gibbons of Asia"
• Erin Wessling: "Contextualizing the Chimpanzee Niche: How savanna mosaic chimpanzee ecology can offer insights into human evolution and beyond"
• Yohannes Haile-Selassie: "The Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Earliest Australopithecus: New insights from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia"
• Nicolas Langlitz: "Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why Cultural Primatologists and Cultural Anthropologists Didn't get to Talk"
• Kirsty Graham: "Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures"
• Lisa Horn: "Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality"
• New book chapter from Alex Mielke and colleagues
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Newsletter - Winter 2020/21
• New publication from Mielke et al.
• Congratulations to Elodie Freymann
• Congratulations to Jana Muschinski
• New publication from Püschel, Bobe and colleagues
• Julie Lesnik: "Edible Insects and Human Evolution"
• Natalia Albuquerque: "Emotional and social regulation in capuchin monkeys"
• Science Writing for the Public: Q&A with Kate Wong
• Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka: "Conserving Gorillas Through a One Health Approach"
• Support for Students
• Primate Conversations Trinity Term 2021
• Shahrina Chowdhury: "Physiological challenges for baboons in anthropogenic landscapes"
• Susana Carvalho wins a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
• Archaeology of the Perishable
• Spotlight on Graduate Research
• João d'Oliveira Coelho publishes first PhD chapter
• Congratulations to Jacinto Mathe and Gimo Daniel
• World Chimpanzee Day 2021
• World Chimpanzee Day 2021
• From Forensic Anthropology, Primatology to Paleoenvironments and Paleontological Record Formation
• Schofield et al. win Primates 2021 Most-Cited Paper Award
• Collaborators
• Primate Conversations Michaelmas Term 2021
• Enquye Negash: "Woody cover and hominin environments"
• Sergio Almécija: "Fossil apes and human evolution"
• 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?"
• Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate behaviours in the wild
• Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa featured in St Hugh's College publication
• Research spotlight: Sophie Berdugo
• Susana Carvalho becomes Professor of Paleoanthropology
• Leakey Foundation Grant awarded to Dr Alejandra Pascual-Garrido
• Chimpanzee Self-Medicative Anecdote Database survey
• Primate Conversations Hilary Term 2022
• Robert Pringle: "Dynamics of large-scale ecological restoration: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique"
• Philippa Hammond: "A multi-level approach to Gorongosa baboons' landscapes of fear"
• Inza Koné: "Community empowerment for the conservation of Critically Endangered Primates in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire: The role of transdisciplinary research"
• Elodie Freymann: "Interpreting the 'Goddess of Nature' in Today's World: How art, anthropology, and botany can be integrated into primate fieldwork"
• Andie Ang: "Cross-border Collaboration for the Research and Conservation of Critically Endangered Primates"
• Charlotte Canteloup: "From social networks to social learning in wild vervet monkeys"
• Michelle Brown: "Competitive dynamics in a frugivore primate guild"
• Paper by d'Oliveira Coelho is one of the most viewed in PeerJ
• Lucy Baehren publishes solo-author review of leave-taking
• Field Short Docs
• Robyn Pickering: "Caves, carbonates and decolonisation: dating human evolution in South Africa in 2022"
• Primate Conversations Trinity Term 2022
• New issue of Human Sciences Newsletter highlights the work of our Lab members
• Sophie Berdugo published a popsci piece in The Oxford Scientist
• Congratulations to Elodie Freymann
• Philippa Hammond's first PhD publication is now available in AJBA
• Jana Muschinski wins best presentation in the contributed research/finished analyses category at PSGB
• Dr Caroline Phillips wins Teaching Excellence Award
• Katarina Almeida-Warren publishes PhD research on ecology of chimpanzee technology
• Congratulations to Elodie Freymann on her 1st co-authored paper!
• René Bobe co-edits leading book on African Paleoecology & Human Evolution
• Júlio Bicca-Marques awarded a Visiting Professorship
• Do you mind the gap? Primatology and human evolution at the southern end of the African rift
• New paper by Lucy Baehren discusses leave taking in wild chacma baboons
• Júlio César Bicca-Marques: "Lessons from howler monkeys on the causes and consequences of primate adaptations to fragmented landscapes"
• New methods to identify wooden tools with major implications for the origins of tool use
• Paper on chimpanzee play behaviour by Alex Mielke and Susana Carvalho is in PeerJ's top 5 most viewed Anthropology and Developmental Biology articles of 2022
• Elodie Freymann "Chimpanzee self-medication" @ Monkey Mondays
• 15 years of tracing the archaeologically invisible steps in the technological evolution of early hominins: where should we be heading next?
• New paper on primate interspecific friendships by Elodie Freymann and colleagues
• Jana Muschinski presents her research in seminar at Oxford Brookes Univeristy
• New comment piece published by Lab members and colleagues: Chimpanzee culture in context
• New issue of the Oxford Scientist featuring work by Lab members
• Baboons of Gorongosa National Park on the cover of oldest primatological journal
• New publication from the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa describes the first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
• Lab members publish milestone review paper discussing the past, present and future of the field of Primate Archaeology
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Exciting new preprint from Sophie Berdugo and colleagues
• New piece on the Paleo-Primate Project excavations in Gorongosa National Park published in Nautilus Magazine
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