HEAS Talk with Daniel Green

We are looking forward to welcoming Daniel Green from Harvard University for a HEAS Talk on Dental Records and the Origins of the Modern African World taking place on the 12th December 2025 at 10:30 CET in SR 1.6 in the UBB.

Abstract:

Global cooling during the Cenozoic engendered several ecological transformations, including in Africa, where increasingly open landscapes witnessed the adaptive radiation of hominins alongside other clades. What do new geochemical (stable isotope) records from teeth tell us about how African fauna responded to faunal interchange with Eurasia, aridification, and increased seasonality? Why do teeth provide unique records of temporally fine-scaled climatic and behavioral processes? And how did primates and human ancestors thrive in changing African landscapes? Lastly, can the special properties of fossilized teeth extend tropical paleoproteomics further back into the Cenozoic, resolving uncertainties not only in the ecological regimes that framed evolution, but in evolutionary history itself?

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