Today, at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Tim Schuurman has passed the viva voce for his thesis “Network Analysis: Applications in Craniocerebral Topology & Human Evolution”, supervised by researcher Emiliano Bruner, which examines the physical interactions between the structural components of the brain and the skull in humans and chimpanzees through the analysis of anatomical networks. 

Esta metodología permite revelar qué componentes estructurales son esenciales en el balance geométrico del complejo craneoencefálico de las dos especies, comparar los patrones fenotípicos que subyacen la organización espacial del sistema y entender cómo estos factores pueden haber impactado en la evolución de la morfología craneoencefálica humana. This methodology allows us to reveal which structural components are essential in the geometric balance of the cranioencephalic complex of the two species, to compare the phenotypic patterns underlying the spatial organization of the system, and to understand how these factors may have affected the evolution of human cranioencephalic morphology.

The jury, chaired by Markus Bastir, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, and laso made of María Rebeca García González, Universidad de Burgos; Fabien Knoll, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; Nathan Jeffery, University of Liverpool, and Pascual Sánchez-Juan, Fundación CIEN, have awarded the new Universidad de Burgos doctor the mark of 'cum laude'.