june 7 2024 – 9h30: international seminar Palevoprim n° 53b
Speaker
Nicole Torres Tamayo
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich
Topic
Addressing extant primate pelvis variation to understand hominin pelvis evolution
Nicole is a paleoanthropologist interested in the evolution of pelvic morphology and its adaptation to different selective pressures in extant primates and hominins. Her PhD research focused on thoraco-pelvic covariation in humans and great apes, developing novel methods to predict missing fossil skeletal elements of the torso. During her first post-doctoral position at the Department of Anthropology of University College London, she investigated whether birth in humans is uniquely difficult among extant primates using a comparative anatomy approach. Now at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine of the University of Zurich, she is working on the reconstruction of incomplete hominin pelves in the fossil record to better understand the evolutionary significance of the different pelvic features that we see in the human lineage.
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Speaker
Martin Häusler
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich
Topic
Evolutionary and ontogenetic foundations of modern body form: insights from KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus)
Martin studied anthropology and medicine at the University of Zürich with a PhD thesis on the evolution of bipedalism in Australopithecus africanus and a MD thesis on pathologies of the spine during human evolution. After a post-doctoral position at the Anthropological Department of the University of California, Davis, he lectured at the Anthropological Institute, University of Zürich, and was senior researcher at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Zürich. It followed a training in orthopaedics, surgery, general and internal medicine. Since 2013 he has been leading the Evolutionary Morphology and Adaptation Group at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, and lecturing at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Zürich.
Place
Room 410, 3rd floor, North wing, Build. B35, university of Poitiers.