2024 Events

Speaker: George Perry (Penn State University)

Tapeworms as a proxy for studying hominin meat eating and food cooking behaviors

Human Palaeosystems in Focus Seminar Series
This talk will feature results from integrative functional (experimental heating of tapeworm cysts and RNA sequencing) and evolutionary genomics analyses to help test hypotheses concerning hominin meat eating behavior and potential tapeworm adaptation to withstand heat stresses associated with hominin food cooking behavior. [more]
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