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Colloquium Archive > 2003-2004 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 was held in Room 16, 175 Whitney Avenue on Thursdays at 5:30, with refreshments starting at 5:00.

Contact: Gary P. Aronsen

FALL 2003

Brenda Bradley
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Molecular Ecology of Mountain Gorillas

Marcello Canuto
Assistant Professor,  Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Sticks and Stones May Have Broken His Bones: The Osteo-Biography of a Classic Maya Dynast

Adam Gordon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas Austin
Evolution of body size and dimorphism in Primates: phylogenetic techniques and an iterative quantitative genetics model

Kenneth Kidd
Professor, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University
Understanding Human DNA Sequence Variation

Alison Richard
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University / Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University
Once More unto the Sifaka!

Jennifer Scott
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Infant Use by Female Western Lowland Gorillas

Tammy Windfelder
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Drew University
Assessing the Influence of Crowned Hawk-Eagles on Mangabey/Redtail Association Patterns (and what about those chimps?)

SPRING 2004

Jonathan Bloch
Curator, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and Florida Museum of Natural History
Paleocene primate skeletons shake the euarchontan tree

David Daegling
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida Gainesville
Functional Morphology and the Art of Rationalization

Rebecca Fisher
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dance of the Pygmy Hippo: Locomotor Anatomy in Choeropsis liberiensis

Stephen Frost
Postdoctoral Fellow, The American Museum of Natural History/NYCEP
Why the long faces? Cranial morphlogy, phylogeography, and systematics of baboons inferred from geometric morphometric analysis of landmark data

Richard Lawler
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Causes and Consequences of Differential Reproductive Success in Male White Sifaka

Michael Muehlenbein
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Life history, Testosterone, and Immune Function

William Rando
Director, Yale Office of Teaching Fellow Preparation and Development
Teaching Biological Anthropology at Yale University

Lynette Sievert
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UMass Amherst
Menopausal hot flashes: climate, biology, and cultural context

Michael Steiper
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College/CUNY
The evolution of a triplicated alpha-globin gene in orangutans

Erin Clancy
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY Stony Brook
Understanding food related aggression in white-face capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus)

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