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People: Evolution and Biology
Parent category: Science & Technology
Prof Robert A. Barton
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41603
Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
Specialist expertise:
- animal behaviour
- evolutionary theory
- the brain
Prof Alan Bilsborough
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
Specialist expertise:
- human evolution
Professor Simon James
Senior Lecturer, Department of English Studies
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42583
Specialist expertise:
- Charles Dickens
- Contemporary Fiction
- Evolution and Literature; Charles Darwin
- George Gissing
- H. G. Wells
- The Novel
- Victorian Literature
Dr Andrew R Millard
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41147
Specialist expertise:
- analysis of bones for diet
- applications of chemistry in archaeology
- applications of chemistry to archaeology
- archaeological information from soil chemistry
- chemical analysis of bones
- dating techniques
- statistics in archaeology
Prof Charlotte Roberts
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41154
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 41154
Mobile telephone: +44 (0) 1677 450106
Specialist expertise:
- Air quality and health in past populations
- Ancient DNA analysis and its contribution to understanding infectious disease in the past
- Disease in Britain from 10,500 BC to the mid 19th century AD
- Ethical issues and the study of human remains from archaeological sites
- Infectious disease: leprosy in past populations
- Infectious disease: treponemal disease (syphilis) in past populations
- Infectious disease: tuberculosis in past populations
- Medical and surgical treatment in the past: trepanation as seen in human remains (skull surgery)
- Reconstructing activity/occupation in the past using skeletal remans
- The study of human remains from archaeological sites, and particularly the evidence for disease
Dr Jo Setchell
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Lecturer, Health and Human Sciences
Specialist expertise:
- animal behaviour
- primate behaviour
- sexual selection
Dr Malcolm T. Smith
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
Specialist expertise:
- evolution
- human genetics