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From September 2023 to April 2024, I mentored two students, Brendan Newton and Ellie Wan, as they completed their professional opportunities as Research Assistants in my lab (Complex Trait and Forensic Genomics Laboratory).
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Journal : Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2023. Link : Taylor & Francis Summary : Integrates developmental psychology and social anthropology to decode artistic remains from the Upper Paleolithic. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0309107 Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013.
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Two Truku indigenous women in the left foreground smile at the camera, showing off their (temporary) black facial tattoos, put on for the occasion of the Fall 2023 Thanksgiving Festival. Lu Meihuan of the Department of Anthropology at National Tsinghua University. A third woman has her back to the camera, and obscures a fourth woman.
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