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Inside WIMM (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

How planetary iron shaped life on Earth

Two researchers working in very different areas; planetary formation and immunity. At a chance meeting they realised they had a shared interest, iron. Their new cross-disciplinary paper unravels the importance of iron availability in the evolution of life
Biodiverse Objects

Biodiversity on the rocks: joining the dots between animate and inanimate

This podcast explores some of the countless relationships between biology, biodiversity, and geology, past and present.
Temple of Science
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Episode 5 – Babylon: Natural Theology versus Scientific Naturalism

When Museum opened in 1860, a new secular approach to science was on the rise. In the final episode of Temple of Science we see how ‘natural theology’ responded to the challenges of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection.
Public International Law Part III

The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future

What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime?
Anthropology

Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science

This Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019
Anthropology

Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation

Alex Alvergne (Oxford) delivered this seminar on 6 March 2019 as part of the Primate Conversations seminar series
Anthropology

Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018
Anthropology

Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London) on 14 November 2018
Anthropology

Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018
Anthropology

The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered

Ian Rickard (Durham) places the origins of the science of health and disease within a framework of evolutionary theory and a medical anthropology perspective (18 January 2016)
Anthropology

Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond

Emma Pomeroy (Cambridge) places obstructed labour within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 15 February 2016.
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.

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