Welcome to the Curnoe laboratory - also known as the Human and Primate Evolutionary Biology Lab. Our main focus is to undertake research and teaching into human and primate evolution, variation, ecology and adaptability. Research interests include studying the direct evidence for human and primate evolution from the fossil record and from DNA, to palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological research, human and primate evolutionary anatomy and biomechanics, through to studies of past and living hominin and primate biogeography and ecology.
 
We draw upon a diverse range of skills and methods, and work with many collaborators in Australia and overseas, focussing on the following areas:
  • Hominin/human and primate evolution and systematics
  • Osteology, anatomy, morphometrics and biomechanics
  • Primate ecology and biogeography
  • Quaternary palaeobiology and palaeoecology
 
 
 

 

Darren Curnoe
Anthropologist, palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist
Associate Professor and research lab leader

Olivia Stone

PhD student: Biogeography of  baboons in southern Africa using GIS

Amanda Guy

PhD student: Rehabilitation and reintroduction of vervet monkeys

Natalie Rogers

PhD student: Human brain evolution focusing on the pre-frontal region

Ceridwen Boel

 
PhD student: The role of hybridisation in recent human evolution
 
   

Tom Beaudoin

Honours student: Hominin phylogenetic systematics focusing on the genus Homo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 








 

 
  


 

 
 
 
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