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
HEB on Twitter
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Hard to imagine, but our brains have gotten bigger. New paper with Doebeli, Chudek, and @JoHenrich explains why: The Cultural Brain Hypothesis. Summary: t.co/969y1xKuPF Press release: t.co/UlWMeF2aLS Paper: t.co/jB1Xo3CvEU t.co/VL4SO13QTE
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The Cultural Brain Hypothesis “shows how constraints for learning culture & information are what drive the expansion in brain evolution (rather than adaptations to the environment or social factors directly).” New paper here! @mmuthukrishna @JoHenrich t.co/wlT5qIj0be
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Convergent evolution of short stature among rainforest-dwelling humans may relate to locomotor biomechanics, explain several HEB members (@vivek_vasi, A. Yegian, I. Wallace, N. Holowka) in a new Proceedings B paper. Read more: t.co/mybuQF9hyg
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HEB's Bridget Alex weighs in on the Neanderthal language debate this week in @DiscoverMag - read more here: t.co/7ZRBG1JzGU
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Join Us: HEB Senior Sonja Eliason will talk about her thesis on plague, 11:45-11:55 am on Friday, in Barker Center at the Max-Planck Harvard Archaeoscience Young Investigator Symposium. t.co/zIGf9FMOnY
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HEB's Bridget Alex writes in @DiscoverMag this week about "Practical Halloween Decorations: How Superstitious Europeans Scared Away Witches". Read more here: t.co/LH6kFKXKay