Dear One and All
Please consider yourself most cordially invited to the next in the WHAT Talks series this forthcoming Sunday, July 9th starting at 8:30 pm West Australia Time (1:30 pm in the UK).
#21 will be given by Dr Colin Hendrie, a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Please feel free to share the link to the meeting below with anyone you know who is interested in human evolution.
Colin studied at the universities of Middlesex and Aberdeen and gained his PhD from the University of Bradford. His main interest is in ethology, where he has applied this approach to a broad range of species, from gulls to humans. He is a Fellow of the
Linnean Society, a member of the ethics committee of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour and currently editor-in-chief of 'Human Ethology', the official journal of the International Society for Human Ethology. Colin first became interested
in the Waterside/Aquatic Ape Hypothesis whilst an undergraduate and has sought to enthuse new generations by incorporating this into his own undergraduate teaching.
Here is the abstract for his talk…
Was Man More Aquatic in the Past?... Yes
Humans have no close living relatives and so it is of interest to students of human evolution and behaviour to try and model the characteristics of the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees. This can be done by examining similarities in
the behaviour of these species and also by considering their behavioural differences. This analysis indicates that the LCA was a self-aware, tool-using, hunter-gathering, hand-assisted arboreal biped. It is suggested that the human line’s most likely
point of origin was in the flooded/swamp forests of what became the Congo basin during the mid-to-late Miocene. It is proposed that the development of this basin created the conditions for the LCA line to divide based on propensity to engage with water
and that this is still reflected in the behaviour of chimpanzees and humans today.
Remember all previous talks are recorded on our web site www.whattalks.com and on the associated YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@whattalks5937/videos.
Please check your local times as daylight saving schemes might be in operation.
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Zoom Meeting Link
Topic: WHAT Talk #21 Colin Hendrie: Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? - Yes
Time: Jul 9, 2023 08:15 PM Perth
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87176158709?pwd=U2pnWWh6U1dQdzAxVS9vT1ZrZTV1UT09
If you have any suggestions for a future guest speaker please get in touch. This is the current full programme …
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Thank you for your interest and support.
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Dr Algis Kuliukas
Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology
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