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• Studying the origins of human material culture in young children
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• Co-Investigators Harvey Whitehouse and Pieter Francois (ICEA) complete collaborative work on €4 million ALIGNED project
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher - Cognitive and Cultural Foundations of Religion and Morality
• New research led by Harvey Whitehouse: 'Dying for the group: what motivates the ultimate sacrifice?'
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• Gorongosa National Park to collaborate with the University of Oxford on the 'Paleo-Primate Project', led by Dr Susana Carvalho
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• Moralizing gods appear after, not before, the rise of social complexity, new research suggests
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• The Evolution of Aging, the Great Transition, and the Increasing Risk of Chronic Disease
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• In Praise of Folly: Play as a Window into Primate Cognition
• A Pan-African Perspective: Chimpanzee behavioural diversity across their range
• Dr William Kelly, Research Affiliate at SAME, is awarded a Teaching Development and Enhancement Project (TDEP) Award 2019-20
• Dr Bronwyn Tarr, Departmental Lecturer at SAME, is awarded a 2020 Divisional Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career Stream)
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• The latest issue of JASO is now published online - Vol XII, No. 1
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher on the 'Ritual Modes' Project
• New Paleontology Laboratory at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park opens
• Dr Emma Cohen wins an Award from the James S McDonnell Foundation
• Age, economic insecurity, and mental health in England across Covid-19 pandemic lockdown
• Oxford Anthropology is ranked no. 1 in the UK in the Guardian Rankings
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher for the GASCON Project
• Stanley Ulijaszek is one of 366 experts contributing insights to UK Parliament Lords Select Committee into Life beyond COVID-19
• Survival of the Friendliest: convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans
• The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates
• Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective
• The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution
• Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system
• POSTPONED: Edible insects and human evolution
• Pick it, strip it, stick it, store it – the life cycle of a crow’s hook tool
• Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar
• Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience - new study from CSSC
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• Blow-up in Bissau A photographic exhibition organised by Dr Ramon Sarró and colleagues has helped re-establish the National Ethnographic Museum in Guinea-Bissau
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• Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the evolution of technology
• 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 to insights into human evolution & 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
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher for the OceanNETs Project
• United in defeat: shared suffering and group bonding among football fans
• Vacancy: Research Fellow in Inclusive Net Zero
• Welcome to the new Emptiness website
• New vacancy: Associate Professorship in Visual Anthropology
• Reproducible Research Oxford event: Science as Amateur Software Development
• Swimming pod – Alex Foster and an Anthropology of a Swimming Club
• Jana Muschinski awarded the Owen F Aldis Scholarship by the International Society for Human Ethology
• Remembering Dr Iain Morley
• Congratulations to DPhil Austin Argentieri published in Epigenomics
• Studying the origins of perishable technology
• The RAI Festival honours Marcus Banks with a live remembrance event on 26 March
• Edible Insects and Human Evolution
• Emotional and Social Regulation in Capuchin Monkeys
• Science Writing for the Public: Q&A with Kate Wong
• Conserving Gorillas Through a One Health Approach
• Physiological challenges for baboons in anthropogenic landscapes
• Susana Carvalho wins a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
• Professor Stanley Ulijaszek contributes to latest UK Parliament Research Briefing on Childhood Obesity
• Congratulations to Jacinto Mathe and Gimo Daniel on receiving the Nat Geo Explorer Community Project award
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• Communication as Emergence and Possibility
• O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 – Winners announced