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TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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The third annual AnthroTree Workshop aims to make phylogenetic methods more accessible by providing hands-on experience to evolutionary anthropologists interested in learning phylogenetic comparative methods. The five-day workshop will feature instructors from around the world, and will cover introductions to a wide array of topics, including:

Studying correlated evolution using independent contrasts and PGLS
Reconstructing ancestral states
Investigating the factors that influence speciation and extinction
Studying morphology, behavior, life history, and cultural traits
Computational approaches in Mesquite, R, and BayesTraits
Examples from all fields of evolutionary anthropology

In addition to lectures, worked examples and exercises, participants will bring a dataset of their choice to work on with the instructors at the workshop.

The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University asks the question: Why are humans the way we are? We teach and engage in field and laboratory research focusing on genetics, anatomy, physiology, and behavior. We are responsible for both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Human Evolutionary Biology.