Press Releases
July 2017:
Flipping the Switch on Height Variation
February 2015:
Complex Evolution of Human Dental Development
December 2013:
Fetal Daughters Influence Mother's Milk
June 2013:
The Evolution of Throwing
May 2013:
Tracking Diet Transitions During Infancy From Teeth
January 2013:
First Molar Eruption, Weaning, and Life History in Living Wild Chimpanzees
March 2012:
Harvard Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research Published in the Journal of Human Evolution
December 2010:
Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down
Latest News
- Three new faculty joining HEB in academic year 2015-16
- Professor Richard Wrangham publishes study arguing that chimpanzees are naturally violent
- Heather Shattuck-Heidorn awarded the Harvard Global Health Institute Fellowship
- Eric Castillo publishes an article on how and why humans use poles to carry loads
- Andrew Cunningham awarded Leakey Foundation grant for dissertation fieldwork
