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Graduate Students


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Brian Addison


Email | Research interests: Cortical and trabecular bone as a biological tissue and engineering material.

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Bridget Alex


Email | Research interests: Dietary and environmental reconstructions, stable isotopes, Paleolithic Europe.

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Email | Research interests: Labor and childbirth, doulas, pregnancy, lactation, stress, social support, mother-infant bonding, reproductive ecology, endocrinology, evolutionary medicine.

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Elizabeth Brown


Email | Research interests: Human genetic evolution, specifically genetic evidence for recent adaptation in response to metabolic and dietary change.

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Rachel Carmody


Email | Research interests: The influence of cooking and non-thermal food processing on energy balance, digestive physiology and anatomy; human and non-human primate nutritional ecology; primate behavioral ecology.

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Katherine Carter


Email | Website Research interests: dental evolution and development, methods to quantify morphological variation, modularity and evolutionary plasticity.

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Eric Castillo


Email | Website Research interests: Biomechanics, functional morphology, experimental biology, mammalian locomotion, human and nonhuman primate evolution.

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Andrew Cunningham


Email | Behavioral & Nutritional Ecology Lab | Research Interests: primate and human foraging and ecology, understanding how cooked foods might have played a role in driving human biology during hominin evolution.

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Carolyn Eng


Email | Website | Research interests: Functional morphology and biomechanics muscle physiology.

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Heather Shattuck-Faegre


Email | Research interests: Human behavioral ecology and endocrinology, life history theory, evolution and mechanisms of cooperative breeding, immune function and life history trade-offs.

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Alex Georgiev


Email | Website | Research interests: Uganda, DRC; Primate behavioral ecology & conservation; male chimpanzee mating effort, rank and energy use at Kanyawara; the evolutionary ecology of aggression and sexual coercion; comparative socio-ecology of chimpanzees and bonobos.

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Luke Glowaki


Email | Website | Research interests: Sociological models of cognitive evolution, coalitionary aggression, foragers, the collective action problem.

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Daniel Green


Email | Research interests: Dental microstructure, isotopic chemistry, reconstruction of tooth growth and life history, human evolution in the
Plio-Pleistocene.

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Laura Klein


Email | Research interests: Nutritional status and maternal resource allocation, immune function, long-term health impacts of the fetal environment, modern human dietary patterns, evolutionary medicine.

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Katherine McAuliffe


Email | website | Research interests: Evolution and development of cooperative behavior in animals and children, inequity aversion, risky decision-making in nonhuman primates; social learning and cultural evolution.

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Collin McCabe


Email | Comparative Primatology Website | Research interests: Cultural and epidemiological transmission dynamics; parasitism in humans and primates; social learning, innovation, and the evolution of culture in humans, primates, and animals.

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Neil Roach


Email | Website | Research interests: Africa; Biomechanics and evolutionary development of the torso, functional morphology of the shoulder, hominin anatomy and paleoenvironment.

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Sam Urlacher


Email | Research interests: Reproductive ecology and evolutionary life history theory, energetic and hormonal correlates of human growth and reproduction in small-scale societies.

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Tory Wobber


Email | Website | Research interests: Central and East Africa; The evolution of cognition; domestication, temperament and ontogeny.

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Qu Zhang


Email | Research interests: Molecular evolution in primates, human evolutionary genomics, and population genetics.

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Katherine Duncan-Zink


Email | Website | Research interests: Skeletal and dental development; Functional integration; Functional morphology; Masticatory biomechanics.

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POST DOCS


Meir M. Barak

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, HEB

Lepzig, Germany
Email | Website | Skeletal Biology

Research Interests: trabecular bone tissue and the relation between trabecular architecture and orientation, and the locomotion behavior (direction of loading) of living primates and ancient hominins.

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Natalie Cooper

Postdoctoral Researcher
Comparative Primatology Lab, HEB
Email | Comparative Primatology Website | Research Interests: Parasites, macroevolution, macroecology and comparative analyses.

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Hannah Koon

Postdoctoral Researcher
Biogeochemsitry Lab, HEB
Email | Biogeochemistry Website

Research Interests: Ancient proteins, specifically: detecting migration from isotopes in hair and bone amino acids; speciation of animal bone fragments and detecting ancient disease, through bone collagen proteomics. Palaeopathologies relating to diet. Taphonomy and diagenesis, i.e. processes affecting bone preservation after death in particular the effects of cooking and burial environment on bone preservation.

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Amanda Veile

Postdoctoral Researcher
Human Behavioral Ecology Research Group, HEB
Email | Website

Research Interests: Fieldwork with the Tsimane (Bolivia), Pumé (Venezuela) and the Maya (Mexico). How postnatal environments shape infant developmental immunity and maternal behavioral strategies, documenting contemporary epidemiologic transitions in indigenous communities throughout Latin America.

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