98 search results for “life neanderthals and first anatomical modern human” in the Public website
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Femke LippokFaculty of Archaeology
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A long-term perspective on human niche construction and alteration of ecosystems
Dr. Katharine MacDonald (Faculty of Archaeology) sketches the background to a recent paper in Science Advances, co-authored by her and other members of the Liveable Planet team.
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Peter VerhaarFaculty of Humanities
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Reducing daily-stress breaking a habit
With this thesis the PhD-candidate aims to enrich the body of evidence concerning the relation between stress and health, and the mediating role of (un)conscious perseverative cognitions, which is captured in the extended perseverative cognition hypothesis.
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Finding resolution for the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in South Africa
This project investigates the causes of the major archaeological change in the period of 40.000-20.000 BC in South Africa.
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty of Humanities
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Elmer VeldkampFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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First SAILS Symposium 'The future of AI is human': a photo impression
On October 14, the first symposium of the university-wide initiative SAILS took place. Scientists from Leiden University and other Dutch universities came together to share their enthusiasm and expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence in a festive symposium, in the atmospheric Museum of Eth…
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
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The placebo effect: first world congress in Leiden
Medicines can work even if they have no active ingredient. The first international scientific conference on placebos will take place in Leiden from 2 to 4 April. Placebo researcher Andrea Evers, who is also chairing the conference, answers some pressing questions.
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Arie BoomertKoninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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The eternal student: exhibition travels through 450 years of studying
Over the centuries painters and photographers have depicted students at study in Leiden. An exhibition at the Hortus botanicus reveals the similarities and differences in 450 years of student life.
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Ali ShobeiriFaculty of Humanities
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Human Reference Atlas: Mapping the human body at single-cell resolution
Seminar
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The Branching of Life: Human iPSC-Based Angiogenesis-on-Chip
PhD defence
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Gerard Persoon
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Pre-Neanderthalers could handle complex techniques
An international team of researchers including Leiden archaeologists has produced convincing evidence that 300,000 years ago pre-Neanderthal people had a high level of cognitive complexity. New insights into early human capabilities and behaviour.
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‘Artists seek and research another dimension of science’
In July, Leiden will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum conference. Humanities scholars from Leiden will make use of the opportunity to stress the importance of art in science. ‘Artists have the ability to show the consequences of science.’
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
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Health psychologist Jos Brosschot professor by special appointment
Jos F. Brosschot has been appointed as a professor by special appointment on the chair ‘psychophysiological mechanisms of stress in daily life’. This chair has been created by the Foundation for Research into Psychosocial Stress.
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Even unconscious stress can cause stress symptoms
Our vision of stress is starting to change fundamentally. We can suffer stress without even being aware of it, while sleeping as wall as during the day. Professor of Psychology Jos Brosschot will discuss this phenomenon in his inaugural lecture on 2 December.
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Herman PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Gjovalin MacajFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep
Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research project to examine whether automatically regulated responses, such as the circadian rhythm, can be conditioned during sleep.
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Social support and quitter-identity may help smokers quit
Receiving positive support and seeing yourself as being a quitter may help smokers quit, say Eline Meijer and colleagues. The health psychologists published their study in Social Science & Medicine.
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Expectations can relieve pain
To relieve a patient's pain, it can be effective to induce expectations. This finding is promising for optimising the effectiveness of treatments, conclude Kaya Peerdeman and colleagues in their article in PAIN.
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Saving for discounts by living healthily
A new health programme will reward patients with - or at risk of developing - cardio-vascular diseases for keeping to a healthy lifestyle. A research group including psychologist Andrea Evers has been awarded 2.5 million euros by the Dutch Heart Foundation and the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare…
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities