University of Helsinki
Presentation: Simon N. Chapman: Grandmother hypothesis revised
Time: Monday 13th May at 4 pm to 6 pm
Place: University of Helsinki: Unioninkatu 35, ground floor, seminar room sh 114
The presentation is based on the recent article:
Chapman, S.N., Pettay, J.E., Lummaa, V. & Lahdenperä, M. (2019). Limits to Fitness Benefits of Prolonged Post-reproductive Lifespan in Women. Current Biology, 29, 645–650.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)30008-9.pdf
Simon N. Chapman is a PhD student in the Human Life History Group at the Department of Biology at the University of Turku, supervised by Professor Virpi Lummaa. He completed his Master’s in the Myanmar Timber Elephant Project at the University of Sheffield in the UK in 2015, also under the supervision of Lummaa, and was working on growth in the Asian elephant.
Welcome to listen and discuss, no preregistration required!
Open Moodle platform for seminar can be found here: https://moodle.helsinki.fi/course/view.php?id=31386
Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) is a founding father of Finnish sociology and one of the world’s first evolutionary sociologist whose scientific thinking was a century ahead of its time. Westermarck seminar gathers together researchers and students interested in evolutionary research from different disciplines. Cross-disciplinary seminar is open to all.
Contact:
Antti Tanskanen
Mirkka Danielsbacka