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Anthropology

Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases

Cristina Giuliani (Bologna) places inflammaging, and genetics, within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 1 February 2016.
Anthropology

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Charlotte K. Russell (Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham) looks at how evolutionary anthropology and cross-cultural perspectives can have a huge impact on specific healthcare issues such as SIDS (22 February 2016)
Anthropology

The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine

James G. Morgan (Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Leeds General Infirmary) discusses how an evolutionary approach can help one understand medicine, such as adaptive defence mechanisms in the body (8 February 2016)
Anthropology

Maternal capital and offspring development

Jonathan Wells (UCL Institute of Child Health) presents an intergenerational perspective on the development origins of health and disease. A medical anthropology seminar given on 29 February 2016.
Anthropology

Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees

An Anthropology Departmental seminar presented by Susana Carvalha (Oxford) on the archaeological sites of non-humans, 27 November 2015
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Evolution of the Genome

Computational and stastistical methods help us understand evolution as well as genetic disease.
Genetics

The Evolution of the Genome

Computational and stastistical methods help us understand evolution as well as genetic disease.
St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks

What can dinosaurs tell us about evolution?

Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaurs
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Suffering History: Phenomenology at the Intersection of Disease and Illness

A presentation by Austin Argentieri.
Keble College

The Avian Genome Explosion

The ASC Trinity Term Lecture delivered by Professor Tom Gilbert, exploring the analysis of bird genomes and evolution.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

An interdisciplinary discussion of Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's book
Mansfield College

Nature, Nurture or Neither: The View from the Genes

The first in our lecture series for Michaelmas Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Stephen Jones -- Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University College London; author of various books on genetics and evolution.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Hidden Worlds" Part 3 - The virtual universe

Dr Andrew Pontzen explains how chains of computers can be set up to simulate billions of years of development of the universe, but in a time period of weeks.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

A Physicist’s View of the Emergence of Terrestrial Vertebrates

Physics Colloquium 7th November 2014. Delivered by Professor Steve Balbus, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Head of Astrophysics, University of Oxford.
Anthropology

Water, human evolution and diet

This public lecture on the role of water in human evolution took place at Somerset House in London as part of its 'Month of Water'. 17 June 2014.
Anthropology

'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery

Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology
The Secrets of Mathematics

Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy

Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make.
Alumni Weekend

Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record

See how modern analyses of the fossil record, genetics and development provide a new understanding of flatfish evolution, and how this bears on both the great flatfish controversy and the rate and nature of evolutionary change more broadly.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (Astor Visiting Lecture)

Are humans inherently selfish? Is there really an essential human nature? How do we contend about the selfish gene in this day and age? What do we make of altruism against the selfish gene? With Professor Sam Bowles (Arthur Speigel Research Professor).
Botanic Garden Audio trail

17. Same or different?

A cactus and a euphorbia - an example of convergent evolution.

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