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ASHB 2017

  Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 31st annual meeting of the Australasian Society for Human Biology (ASHB) that was hold not far from Melbourne, in Ballarat. There were many interesting talks, ranging from bioarcheological studies from Southeast Asian populations to palaeonthropology research on Homo floresiensis. We presented a study on the dental macrowear pattern and cortical bone thickness in the Neanderthal mandible from Regourdou (Southwestern France). It was interesting to see so many HDR students presenting

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New study on cranial variation in red howler monkeys published in the American Journal of Primatology

Our new research on cranial variation on red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus), has been recently published in the American Journal of Primatology. Using geometric morphometric methods we suggest that allometry (which describes how the different body parts of an organism change with size) is the main source of variation involved in shaping cranial morphology in howlers, influencing the degree of facial proportions and braincase flattening, and generating the main sexual differences. Our manuscript is now accessible in Early View using

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