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Chair of the Royal Anthropological Institute Education Committee 

Trustee of the Horniman Fund

Project mentor for the RAI-Leach Fellowship in the Public Understanding of  Anthropology 

QAA Anthropology Benchmark Review Panel member 

Member of International Association for the Study of Arabia 

Human biology and ancient DNA: exploring disease, domestication and movement

The relative roles of maternal survival and inter-personal violence as selection pressures on the persistence of Neanderthal hypercoagulability alleles in modern Europeans

Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

The role of aDNA in understanding the coevolutionary patterns of human sexually transmitted infections

Sceptical Perspectives on Melancholy: Burton, Swift, Pope, Sterne

Dr Simon Underdown is Reader in Biological Anthropology in the Human Origins and Paleo-Environments (HOPE) Research Group at Oxford Brookes University. He researches human evolution - examining ancient DNA (drawn from soils at special archaeological sites, mostly in Africa and the Middle East) to reconstruct past human and animal life. He has particularly traced the origins, historical genetics and spread (from animals to humans) of certain viruses such as the herpes virus. 

Simon is Chair of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education Committee and is involved in broader science education and public engagement (in science) initiatives, as well as explores how human evolution is taught. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Human Biology.

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Human Evolution

Anthropology

Ancient DNA

Genetics

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Remains of Plymouth's 'first man' found by quarry workers

From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences, by Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen

We share even more DNA with Neanderthals than we thought

Was Charles Darwin a racist?

Human evolution lecturer: 'We need aggression' to survive

Seminar for Arabian Studies

RLAHA Martin Aitken Seminar Series

Department of Archaeology

British Association of Biological Anthropology &  Osteoarchaeology’s 20th Anniversary Conference

South West Wilts Virus Group

Reader in Biological Anthropology in the Human Origins and Paleo-Environments Research Group

Rifkin, et al. "Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome." Microbiome (2020)

Read the article: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00832-x

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Ancient fecal specimen offers time capsule of our gut microbiome’s past

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