PALEVOPRIM offers three thesis topics that can be funded

Analyse biomécanique du membre antérieur des hominines fossiles au cours du geste de percussion et du grimper

Abstract: Bien que la bipédie constitue un des caractères clé des hominines, aucun consensus ne permet d’établir le/les mécanismes évolutifs à l’origine de la forte variation morphologique de leur membre pectoral. Pourtant, très tôt au cours de leur histoire évolutive, les hominines auraient limité le rôle de leurs membres antérieurs dans la pratique du grimper, au profit de fonctions non locomotrices incluant par exemple la production et/ou l’utilisation d’outils. Find out more…

Host laboratory: PALEVOPRIM
Project manager: guillaume.daver@univ-poitiers.fr

Contribution of MCS to the quantification of seasonality in ancient times ; application between 3,5 Ma and 1,2 Ma in the Omo (Shungura Formation, Ethiopia)

Abstract: Seasonality is one of the climatic variables that has the greatest impact on the landscapes and distribution of faunas and their diversity at different time scales: annual, historical and geological. Find out more…

Host laboratory: PALEVOPRIM
Project managers: olga.otero@univ-poitiers.fr – geraldine.garcia@univ-poitiers.fr

Dental Archives and feeding habits of extinct species: evidence from experimental approaches

Abstract: This PhD proposal aims at quantifying the relationships between mechanical, physical, and biogeochemical properties of food and dental archives. One of the most discussed topic in mammalian (paleo-)ecology and evolution is not the role of the entire diet but the one of fallback food types on the selection of cranial and dental phenotypes. Find out more…

Host laboratory: PALEVOPRIM
Project manager: gildas.merceron@univ-poitiers.fr