Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Efe women and child in the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Woman in background is collecting a saliva sample for hormonal research
Examining the effects of variations in lumbar curvature on loading behavior

Graduate student Eric Castillo studying feet and backs during fieldwork conducted in rural Kenya with Professor Daniel Lieberman
Rhesus Macaque Infant Breastfeeding

This photo was captured during fieldwork conducted as part of a long-term lactation study. Image credit: K. West/CNPRC
Born to Run

Nature 2004 issue publishing Bramble & Lieberman renowned article on "Endurance Running & the Evolution of Homo"
A !Kung San man hunting with a thrown spear in the early 1960s

Former HEB graduate student, N. Roach & D. Lieberman, M. Venkadesan, M. Rainbow, 2013 Nature paper on the evolution of throwing
Richard Wrangham (2009), "Catching Fire: How cooking made us human", New York: Basic Books

Professor Richard Wrangham examines the effects of cooking on hominin evolution

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

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