Marta Mirazón Lahr

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Marta Mirazón Lahr
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationEvolutionary Biologist
NationalityBritish & Argentinian
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo
University of Cambridge
PartnerRobert Foley (academic)

Dr. Marta Mirazón Lahr (born 1965) is a palaeoanthropologist and Director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Academic career

Born in

Clare College.[2][3] Mirazon Lahr was promoted to University Reader in Human Evolutionary Biology in 2005.[4]

In 2001 Mirazon Lahr, with co-founder and husband Robert Foley,[5] established the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES) at the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust. The Centre was designed to provide a home for the Duckworth Collection, and up-to-date laboratories and facilities to support research in human evolution which integrated genetics, anthropology, and other fields.[6]

Mirazon Lahr was awarded the Phillip Leverhulme Prize in 2004.[7]

Research

Lahr's research is in human evolution, and ranges across human and hominin morphology, prehistory and genetics. Her early work provided a test of the Multiregional Hypothesis of modern humans origins, and underlined much of the argument against models of regional continuity in traits between archaic and modern humans.[8] This research expanded into a fuller consideration of the origins of modern human diversity, published as a book in 1996 - The Evolution of Human Diversity - by Cambridge University Press.[9] Her subsequent research continues to explore human diversity from a number of different perspectives and methodological approaches, and includes archaeology, palaeobiology, genomics and human biology.[10][11][12]

She and Robert Foley were the first to propose a ‘southern route’ for humans out of Africa, and for human diversity to be the product of multiple dispersals as well as local adaptation.[11][12][13][14] She has led field projects in the Amazon, the Solomon Islands,[15][16] India, the Central Sahara[17] and Kenya,[18] the last two focusing on issues to do with the origins and dispersals of modern humans in Africa.

Mirazon Lahr is currently the director of the IN-AFRICA Project, an Advanced Investigator Award from the European Research Council (ERC) to examine the role of east Africa in modern human origins.[19] As part of the IN-AFRICA Project, she has led the excavations at the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, establishing the existence of prehistoric warfare among nomadic hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago.[20]

She was recently interviewed alongside Richard and Meave Leakey as part of the documentary 'Bones of Turkana', a National Geographic Special about palaeoanthropology and human evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.[21][22]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "The origins of modern humans: a test of the multiregional hypothesis". Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
  2. ^ "Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge". Clare College. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  3. ^ "Cambridge Reporter List of Elected Fellows at Clare College, Cambridge". Cambridge Reporter Online. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  4. ^ "Cambridge Reporter List of University Promotions 2005". Cambridge Reporter Online. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  5. ^ "Marta Mirazon Lahr". The Conversation. 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  6. ^ "Features of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  7. ^ "Phillip Leverhulme Prize Winners 2004". The Leverhulme Trust. Archived from the original on 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
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  9. ^ Lahr, M. M. (1996) The evolution of modern human diversity, Cambridge: CUP.
  10. S2CID 86086352
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    PMID 9881525
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    doi:10.1016/0047-2484(92)90085-n
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  13. S2CID 86086352
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  14. S2CID 163040120
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  15. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.014.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  16. S2CID 4824401
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  17. ^ Mirazón-Lahr, M., Foley, R., Armitage, S., Barton, H., Crivellaro, F., Drake, N., Hounslow, M., Maher, L., Mattingly, D., Salem, M., Stock, J., White, K. (2008). "DMP III: Pleistocene and Holocene palaeonvironments and prehistoric occupation of Fazzan, Libyan Sahara" (PDF). Libyan Studies. 39: 1–32. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2013-02-19.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ "In Africa (ERC Research Project)". Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  19. ^ "In Africa Project 2012-2017". http://www.in-africa.org. Retrieved 2013-01-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  20. S2CID 4462435
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  21. ^ "Bones of Turkana Review of Educative Value". studenthandouts.com. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  22. ^ "Bones of Turkana National Geographic Special". pbs.org. Retrieved 2013-01-22.

External links

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