Paleontología virtual un conjunto de herramientas emergente para análisis morfo-funcionales en contextos evolutivos

Image credit: Thomas A. Püschel

Abstract

Charla plenaria sobre Paleoantropología y técnicas morfo-funcionales virtuales presentada en en las XIII Jornadas Chilenas de Anatomía (Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía).

Date
Oct 6, 2020 12:00 AM — Oct 7, 2020 12:00 AM
Location
Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Metropolitana,
Thomas A. Püschel
Thomas A. Püschel
Postdoctoral researcher

I am an evolutionary anthropologist and vertebrate palaeobiologist mainly focused on human, primate and mammalian evolution. My main interest is to study organismal evolution by reconstructing and comparing the palaeobiology of fossils to their living ecological relatives. In order to do this, I apply a combination of phylogenetics, 3D morphometrics, virtual biomechanical techniques, computational simulations, statistical modelling, phylogenetic comparative methods, and fieldwork. I am part of the Venditti group, University of Reading, within the framework of the Leverhulme project ‘The evolutionary and biogeographical routes to hominin diversity’. I am also a research affiliate at the Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford, where I work together with the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa, Mozambique.

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