Dr Conrad Brimacombe
BSc, MSc, PhD
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Biography
Current Research Projects:
Understanding pongine phylogeny and evolutionary rates using dental metrics.
Analysing variability in dental sequence and mineralsation timing among great apes.
Assessing migrations barriers and their effects on ancient migration patterns using ancient DNA.
Research Interests:
I maintain an active interest in human and ape life history patterns. I am keen to broaden my work into understanding Pongo and Gorilla developmental patterning and applying that knowledge to understanding fossil hominins.
I am also interested in ancient genomics and applications for studying migration patterns, paleoepidemiology, and how environmental change in the past 10,000 years has affected allele frequencies for diseases that are common today.
Understanding pongine phylogeny and evolutionary rates using dental metrics.
Analysing variability in dental sequence and mineralsation timing among great apes.
Assessing migrations barriers and their effects on ancient migration patterns using ancient DNA.
Research Interests:
I maintain an active interest in human and ape life history patterns. I am keen to broaden my work into understanding Pongo and Gorilla developmental patterning and applying that knowledge to understanding fossil hominins.
I am also interested in ancient genomics and applications for studying migration patterns, paleoepidemiology, and how environmental change in the past 10,000 years has affected allele frequencies for diseases that are common today.
Publications
Selected publications
22/08/2022Temporal population Structure, a genetic dating method for ancient Eurasian genomes from the past 10 000 years
Cell Reports Methods
The enigmatic relationship between epiphyseal fusion and bone development in primates
Evolutionary anthropology
Epiphyseal fusion in Pan troglodytes relative to dental age
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Recent publications
22/08/2022Temporal population Structure, a genetic dating method for ancient Eurasian genomes from the past 10 000 years
Cell Reports Methods
aYChr-DB: a database of ancient human Y haplogroups
Nucleic Acids Research
Epiphyseal fusion and dental development in Pan paniscus with comparisons with Pan troglodytes
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
The enigmatic relationship between epiphyseal fusion and bone development in primates
Evolutionary anthropology
An analysis of correlations between measures of skeletal development and dental mineralization in Pan troglodytes
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Teaching
I teach Early Human Origins (Year 2, MSc Paleobiology Research), Forensic Anthropology (Year 3), and Primatology (Year 3) as a Unit Director. I also teach in co-taught units including Evolution and Human Behaviour (Year 2), Human Challenges (Year 3), and Evolution in Action (Year 1).