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Comparing Pathways to Domestication, Agriculture and Civilization Across Asia and Africa
4 July 2019
Dorian Fuller was recently invited to give a lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and participate in an expert-led workshop in Vienna on his world-leading research on the evolution of agriculture.
Dorian gave a lecture entitled Comparing Pathways to Domestication, Agriculture and Civilization Across Asia and Africa at the Czech Academy of Science in late June.
- The lecture is now available to view on Youtube
- Interview on Czech TV (interview starts at approx. 15:40 mins)
- Read interviews with Dorian in local Czech media - Lidové noviny, Deník
Dorian had previously participated in the 38th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology in Vienna on The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects which explored how we can understand agriculture as a product of convergent evolution.
The 'Altenberg Workshops in Theoretical Biology' address key questions of biological theories. Each Altenberg Workshop, organised by leading international experts in a particular field, aim to make conceptual progress and to generate initiatives of a distinctly interdisciplinary nature.
Dorian has led ERC-funded research on comparative pathways to agriculture as well as NERC funded research on early rice which has improved methods and evidence for the evolution and spread of rice agricultural systems throughout Asia, and how these have impacted social and environmental change.
Further details
- Dorian Fuller (UCL staff profile)
- The Archaeobotanist blog