Date and time
Wednesday 8 October 2025 - 5.40pm - 7.30pm
Location
Room: Mitchell and Kenyon CinemaBuilding: Foster BuildingAddress: University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE
Entry fee
Free
Join us for this free public talk about growing up human. We'll explore why it takes humans so much longer to grow up compared to our primate relatives.
We spend more of our lives ‘growing up’ than almost any other animal.
Join Dr Brenna Hassett to get an anthropologist’s perspective on how our species has invested in each stage of growing up.
How do our dangerous pregnancies and births, helpless infants, and slow-growing children compare to our primate relatives? And how did we get this way?