39 search results for “evolution ” in the Student website
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Cathleen Broersma
Science
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David Milhanas Henriques Norte
Science
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Cora Leder
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anagnostis Theodoropoulos
Science
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Barbara Gravendeel
Science
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Ben Wielstra
Science
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Katerina Johnson
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tessa Verhoef
Science
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Foraging skills may have made the essential difference in the evolution of our huge brain
Hunter-gatherers acquire their food through complex gender-specific foraging techniques for a relatively stable and diverse supply of energy. New research indicates that this specialisation by boys and girls starts at a very young age. Most likely, this enabled the human species to evolve much larger…
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Tom Kouwenhoven
Science
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Jac Aarts
Faculteit Archeologie
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Aitor Burguet-Coca
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs van Kolfschoten
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Niochet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Michael Richardson
Science
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Willem Meilink
Science
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Wil Roebroeks
Faculteit Archeologie
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Guillermo Guerrero Egido
Science
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Merijn de Bakker
Science
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Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski
Science
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Manon de Visser
Science
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Sebastian Fajardo Bernal
Science
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Simon Portegies Zwart
Science
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leindert Boogaard
Science
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From ancient sites to heritage rescue, from digital sciences to the evolution of human origins: at Archaeology & Society, you will learn about the many multidisciplinary aspects of archaeological research.
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Katharina Riebel
Science
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Marie Soressi
Faculteit Archeologie
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Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food
How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karline Janmaat is studying how humans and other primates adapt to their environment in their search for food. She will give her inaugural lecture as Professor…
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Bonobos, unlike humans, are more interested in the emotions of strangers than acquaintances
Humans and bonobos show striking similarities as well as differences when they see pictures of conspecifics. Both are more interested in photos of conspecifics that show emotion. But while our human attention is more easily drawn to photos of family members and friends that express certain emotions,…
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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Travel reveals the mind
Exploring the minds of our primate cousins in the wild, using under-exploited observations of their travel paths. A large set of observations of the travel paths of wild primates provides new opportunities for in-depth insights in the evolution of the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves,…
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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[Cancelled until further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series