Winter Meeting 2007

PSGB: Celebrating 40 Years of British Primatology

Monday 17th –Tuesday 18th December 2007

Meeting Rooms of the Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY.

PROGRAMME 

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Monday 17 December 2007

10:00 Registration and coffee

10:45 Bob Martin Evolution of primate reproduction - The key issue of placentation
11:15 Ann MacLarnon Primate life history adaptations – combining laboratory and field approaches
11:45 Phyllis Lee Primate parenting and development: mothers, infants and others....
12:15 Founder Member Address: Robert Hinde Non-human primates and human behaviour

12:45 AGM       13:15 lunch

14:15 Bernard Wood Palaeoanthropology: Then and now
14:45 Corrie Waitt The evolution of the face as a mechanism for mate choice: evidence from rhesus macaques.
15:15 Klaus Zuberbühler The primate roots of human language

15:45 Tea

16:15 Bill Sellers Primate Locomotion: The Hows and Whys of Strepsirhine Leaping
16:45 Paul Honess A Reassessment of Galago Diversity: Fieldguide Practicality vs Laboratory Analyses.
17:15 Hannah Buchanan-Smith Applying science to improving captive primate welfare

17:45 Hilary Box The Primate Society of Great Britain – Supporting and developing primatology

Napier Award Presented by Hilary Box

18:15 End

Tuesday 18 December

9:30   Russell Hill Predation and primate behaviour
10:00 David Chivers From Forests to Fragments in Forty Years around the Far East
10:30 Conservation medal lecture Cyril Rosen Psimian Psychology

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Robin Dunbar Half a century of primate social evolution
12:00 Barry Keverne Primate brain evolution and consequences for behaviour

12:30 lunch

14:00 Simon Bearder The special senses of nocturnal primates: social complexity with smaller brains.
14:30 Robert Barton Brain size and development in primates
15:00 Chris Pryce Parental nurturing of offspring development: how and why early experience regulates brain and behaviour

15:30 Tea

16:00 Colleen Schaffner Living with fission-fusion dynamics: Implications for social relationships in wild spider monkeys
16:30 Andrew Whiten Primate Culture: From the Field to Diffusion Experiments and Back Again

17:00 End

Registration Forms

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Please return to:

Dr Andrew Smith

Department of Life Sciences,

Anglia Ruskin University,

East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT

or email to a.smith@anglia.ac.uk

Call for poster abstracts

Authors are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations. Abstracts (250 words max) including including title, authors and affiliations should be submitted to Andrew Smith (a.smith@anglia.ac.uk) by 1st October. Maximum size for posters is A0 (841 × 1189 mm).

Reception 17th December

Please join us for dinner and drinks to celebrate PSGB's 40th anniversary on Monday, 17th Dec from 6.30pm onwards at The Princess of Wales Pub, 22 Chalcot Road, Camden, London, NW1 8LL. Tickets, £10 - £20, include dinner and a drink - cash bar thereafter. N.B. whilst some tickets will be available on the day, prebooking is advisable as numbers are strictly limited - details to be found on the registration form.

Meeting organised by:

Charlie Lockwood (c.lockwood@ucl.ac.uk)

Caroline Ross (c.ross@roehampton.ac.uk)

Andrew Smith (a.smith@anglia.ac.uk )