Faculty, Lecturers & College Fellows

THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY



Daniel E. Lieberman

HEB Department Chair, Professor of HEB, Affiliate in the Dept. OEB
Peabody Museum 53H | (617) 495-5479
Email | Website | Skletal Bio Lab

Research interests: How and why the human body looks the way it does (functional, developmental and evolutionary anatomy of the skull and postcranium).

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Richard W. Wrangham

Director of HEB Graduate Studies, Ruth B. Moore Prof. of Biological Anthropology,
Harvard College Professor

Peabody Museum 50B | 617 495-5948
Email | Website

Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, human ecology, evolutionary biology

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David R. Pilbeam

Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution
Head Tutor (Undergraduate Program)

Peabody Museum 51B | (617) 495-4736
Email | Website

Research interests: paleoanthropology, hominoid evolution, anatomy, paleoecology; Africa and Asia .

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Picture of Peter EllisonPeter T. Ellison

John Cowles Professor of Anthropology
HEB Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2012)
Peabody Museum 51F | 617 495-4213
Email | Website

Research Interests: reproductive ecology, endrocrinology, human evolutionary biology.Back to Top




Picture of Katherine HindeKatherine Hinde

Assistant Professor
Peabody Museum 53B | (617) 496-4551
email | website

Research Interests: "Parent-offspring conflict, sex-biased investment, life history tradeoffs, effects of maternal and environmental conditions on milk production (composition and yield) and the relationship between mother's milk and infant characteristics in macaques. Future research directions include exploring the genetic and epigenetic determinants of milk production and the consequences for infant growth, metabolism, and behavior. Back to Top




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Karen Kramer

Associate Professor
Peabody Museum 26 | (617) 495-1870
Email| website

Research interests: life history, biodemography, juvenility, cooperative breeding, intergenerational
transfers, demographic and economic transitions, hunter-gatherers and small-scale agriculturalists.

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Picture of Charles NunnCharles Nunn

Associate Professor

Peabody Museum 53D | (617) 495-4710

Email | website

Research interests: infectious disease and primate ecology, bioinformatics and evolutionary biology, conservation of biodiversity and emerging infectious diseases .

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mrMaryellen Ruvolo

Professor, Affiliate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Peabody Museum 54A | (617) 495-3576 | Email | website

Research interests:human molecular adaptations, detection of selection in primates, evolution of genes related to pregnancy/reproduction, evolution of gene for human athletic abilities, natural selection on networks and gene pathways.

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Tanya M. Smith

Assistant Professor
Peabody Museum 47 | (617) 496-8259
Email | website

Research Interests: dental development and three-dimensional tooth structure in fossil and living apes and humans.

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Noreen Tuross

Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology
Peabody Museum 58 D
Email | Website

Research interests: Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions. Ancient DNA and DNA damage. Human impacts on the land, paleodiet, migration and seasonality.

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Faculty Affiliates



David Reich

Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Department Advisors


Carole Hooven

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies & Lecturer
Peabody Museum 52F
Email

Research Interests: Behavioral Endocrinology and evolution of sex differences in humans (physiology, behavior and cognition).

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Zarin Machanda

HEB Associate Concentration Advisor & Lecturer
Peabody Museum
Email

Research interests: the evolution of male-female relationships in primates with a specific focus on chimpanzees living in western Uganda. Her work focuses on male-female association patterns, friendships between males and females and inter-sexual feeding competition. Most recently she has started collaborations to look at coalitions and mutual grooming in chimpanzees

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Lecturers


John C. Barry

Lecturer, Director, Paleoanthropology Lab
Peabody Museum 40C | (617) 495-3720
Email

Research interests: primate evolution, paleontology, geology, paleoenvironments, Miocene hominoids; Parkistan, Southwestern America.

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Judith Flynn Chapman

Lecturer, Allston Burr Resident Dean, Quincy House.
Peabody Museum 55F | (617) 495-1679
Email

Research interests: Reproductive ecology.

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Brenda Frazier

College Fellow
Email | Skeletal Biology Lab

Research interests: Cranial development, evolution and allometry

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Russell Greaves

Lecturer
Vanserg Rm. 103 | (617) 495-2288
Email

Research interests: human behavioral ecology, subsistence, hunters and gatherers, technological adaptations, ethnoarchaeology, South America.

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Susan F. Lipson

Lecturer, Researcher, Reproductive Ecology Lab
Peabody Museum 56D | (617) 496-1038
Email

Research interests: human behavioral and reproductive endocrinology, reproductive ecology.

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Amanda Lobell

Lecturer
Peabody Museum 55A | 617-495-8323 |
Email | website

Research interests: primate molecular evolution, evolution of the reproductive system, natural selection on primate and human genomes.

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David Rand

Lecturer, Harvard University Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
1 Brattle Sq. Rm. 637 | 607-592-0218
Email | Website

Research Interests: evolution of human social behavior, cooperation, evolutionary game theory, experimental economics.

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Meredith Reiches

College Fellow
Email

Research interests: The Gambia; Human reproductive ecology and endocrinology; ecological variation in puberty, growth and reproductive function in adolescence.

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Preceptors


Kristi Lewton

Preceptor in Evolutionary Anatomy and Physiology
Peabody Museum 56A-1 | (617) 495-5246
Email | Website | Skletal Bio Lab

Research Interests: Functional morphology of primate locomotor systems, human and nonhuman primate evolution, evolution of bipedality.

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