Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium > 2006-2007 Biological Anthropology "Brown Beer" Colloquium

For two decades, Thursday evening "Brown Beer Lectures" have offered opportunities for faculty and graduate students to present and discuss their research across the disciplines and with scholars and students from other institutions. An informal and collegial atmosphere has attracted hundreds of researchers from around the world to participate, with first-year graduate students, emeritus faculty, and everyone in between providing new insights and challenging discoveries.

The Brown Beer Colloiquum is held in Room B16, 175 Whitney Avenue on Thursdays at 5:30, with refreshments starting at 5:00.

Contact: Gary P. Aronsen

SPRING 2007

January 18
Gary P. Aronsen, Yale University
Make Your Own House: Panamanian Swamp Monkeys vs. Ugandan Tuskers

January 29
AAPA Meetings

February 8
David Watts
Scavenging by Chimpanzees or: One Chimp's Meat Is Another Chimp's Poison

February 15
Nancy Todd, Dept. of Biology, Manhattanville College
Death, Bugs, and Crime: The Use of Forensic Entomology in CSI

February 22
Matt Benoit
Dispersal of Subadult Lions: Life History's Imprint on Allometry

March 1
Walter Joyce, Collection Mgr., Div. of Vertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum
Cow Horned Turtles and Bipedal Running Crocs

March 8
Melanie Beuerlein, Yale University
The Quest for the Forgotten Ape: Lessons from Fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo

April 5
Steven W. Zucker, Depts. of Computer Science and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University
Modeling Visual Computations in Primates

April 12
Peter Ellison, Harvard University
The Modular Biology of Human Life History Transitions, or Getting In Touch with Your Inner Tadpole

April 19
Anthony J. Tosi, Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, New York University
This talk has been cancelled.

April 26
Monica Wakefield, Yale University
Social and Ecological Dynamics of Female Chimpanzee Grouping Patterns at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda

FALL 2006

September 14
K. Nicole Gibson, Yale University
My Travels in Peru: The Flying Spider Monkeys of Cosha Cashu

October 12
James B. Rossie, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Tears and Taxonomy: nasalcrimal ducts and haplorhine origins

October 26
Alfred L. Rosenberger, Associate Professor, CUNY/Brooklyn College
The Road the Higher Primates: Where Does it Begin?

November 2
Roberto A. Delgado, Jr., Assistant Professor, Hunter College CUNY
Revisiting Island Differences in Orangutan Socioecology

November 9
Bruce J. Shockey, American Museum of Natural History
Problems in Functional Morphology on an Ancient, "Lost" Continent

November 16
Melissa Emery Thompson, Harvard University
Determinants of Reproductive Success in Wild Female Chimpanzees

November 30
Richard Bribiescas, Yale University
Hormones, fat, and large fish: Are the Ache destined for obesity?

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