Seminar in Physical Anthropology

New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology

NYCEP Colloquia Spring 2000

Selected Fridays, 2-4pm, Rm. 6417 GC
This year's Seminar Topic is Primate Conservation.

• February 4
  Andrew Burrell, NYU
  The role of economic development projects in primate conservation

• February 18
  Danielle Whittaker, CUNY
  Movin' monkeys: Captive breeding, rehabilitation, reintroduction, and translocation as tools in primate conservation

• March 10
  Rachel Dvoskin, NYU
  Ethical considerations in primate conservation and research

• March 24
  advanced students discussing dissertation research:
  Kieran McNulty, CUNY
  Morphometric and Phylogenetic analyses of hominoid facial morphology
  Wendy Dirks, NYU
  The relationship of life history variables to dental development in catarrhines
  Chris Robinson, NYU
  The functional morphology of the mandible in hominoids
  Varsha C. Pilbrow, NYU
  What discrete dental characters, if any, can be used to differentiate and diagnose the four genera of extant hominoids? A dental variation study

• March 31
  various students
  Problems and pitfalls of dissertation writing--workshop for students only.

• April 2
  Marc Moniz, CUNY
  Systematic questions in conservation research, and Systematics Agenda 2000

• April 28
  Prof. Andrew Hill, YALE
  From Equatorius to Homo: Paleoanthropological Research in the Tugen Hills, Kenya

• May 5
  Paula Lee, CUNY
  The role of primate communication in conservation studies

• May 12
  advanced students discussing dissertation research:
  Larissa Swedell, COLUMBIA
  Social behavior of female hamadryas baboons
  Rebeca Araya, NYU
  Social and genetic structure in two New World primates:
  what's love got to do with it?
  Elena Cunningham, CUNY
  Pithecia foraging decisions

• May 19
  Prof. Simon Bearder, Oxford Brookes University
  How to study primates at night - a guide to field methods
  (NOTE: this seminar will take place in Rm. C198)

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