The Human Evolutionary Biology Lab is UNSW's laboratory for research and teaching into human and primate evolution, variation, ecology and adaptability. Our research projects include studying the direct evidence for human and primate evolution from the fossil record, to palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological research, human and primate evolutionary anatomy and biomechanics, through to studies of past and living primate biogeography and ecology. Our group draws upon a diverse range of skills and methods in our research and collaboration centering on the following areas:
  • Hominin and primate palaeontology and systematics
  • Osteology, anatomy, morphometrics and biomechanics
  • Quaternary palaeobiology and palaeoecology
  • Primatology, including ecology and biogeography
 
 
 

 

Darren Curnoe
Anthropologist, palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist
Associate Professor and research lab leader

Olivia Stone

PhD student: Biogeography of  baboons in southern Africa using GIS

Amanda Guy

PhD student: Rehabilitation and reintroduction of vervet monkeys

Natalie Rogers

PhD student: Human brain evolution focusing on the pre-frontal region

Tom Beaudoin

Honours student: Hominin phylogenetic systematics focusing on the genus Homo
 
Bits and pieces from our lab...

Call for Papers
Human Origins Research
Hominin Systematics: Current Theory and Practice

 Recent Research
Download a recent
article from our lab about 'cranial robusticity'

 Media
Recent article about 'human extinction' in
The Conversation

Hominin Biomechanics
Recently published research in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B
 

PEGG 2011
 Olivia Stone and Amanda Guy are presenting their PhD research at this year's PEGG meeting in South Africa

AAAP Conference 2012
  Information about
the Asian-Australasian Association of Palaeoanthropologists conference

   

 
 
 








 

 
  


 

 
 
 
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