The OVAL at Gastown, the Big Easy & the Windy City this Spring

Members associated with the OVAL at The University of Tennessee will be presenting podium talks and scientific posters at four conferences this March and April. Come hear about our most recent research!

Paleoanthropology Society (Vancouver)

March 28 - 4:00-6:00 PM, Poster Session. Cara Wall-Scheffler, Helen Kurki, & Benjamin Auerbach. "Human pelvic morphology from an integrative context." Poster.

Society for American Archaeology (Vancouver)

April 1 - 11:15-11:30 AM, Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory Symposium. Benjamin Auerbach & Angela Mallard. "Modeling conditions necessary to detect gene flow in humans from archaeological contexts." Podium.

American Association of Physical Anthropologists (New Orleans)

April 21 - 8:00-8:15 AM, Session 29: Human Skeletal Biology: Shape, Selection, Integration, and Kinship. Benjamin Auerbach. "Differences in adult female human true pelvis morphology with respect to age are not due to selection." Podium.

April 21 - 10:45-11:00 AM, Session 29: Human Skeletal Biology: Shape, Selection, Integration, and Kinship. Angela Mallard, James T. Watson, & Benjamin M. Auerbach. "Evaluating the limitations of biological distance models of gene flow in ancient human populations." Podium.

April 21 - 8:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M., Session 39: Primates: Methods and Morphology. Elizabeth Agosto & Benjamin Auerbach. "Correlated responses to selection among elements of the cranium and appendicular skeleton between large-bodied and small-bodied tamarins." Poster.

April 22 - 8:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M., Session 59: Human Biology and Genetics IV. Kristen Savell & Benjamin Auerbach. "Measures of evolvability in human body proportions across latitude." Poster

April 22 - 3:15-3:30 PM, Session 65: Primate Evolutionary Morphology. Samuel Williams & Benjamin Auerbach. "Trait variation, convergence, and ecogeographic patterns in Macaca crania." Podium.

American Association of Anatomists at Experimental Biology 2017 (Chicago)

April 23 - 12:00-1:30 PM, Poster Session: Biological Anthropology. Benjamin Auerbach. "Adult female human bony pelvis obstetric morphology differences with respect to age are not due to selection." Poster.

April 23 - 12:00-1:30 PM, Poster Session: Biological Anthropology. Elizabeth Agosto & Benjamin Auerbach. "Correlated responses to selection among elements of the cranium and appendicular skeleton between large-bodied and small-bodied tamarins." Poster.