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  • Date and time: Friday 19 June 2020, 11pm to 11.59pm
  • Location: Online event
  • Audience: Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

3-minute thesis

By studying dominance styles in primates we can discover what it means to be human.

Eithne Kavanagh from the Department of Psychology has studied the dominance and communication styles of over 600 primates to find out if tolerance drives the evolution of human communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqyXhNdBQ0