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Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of the world.

February 11, 2025

The Harvard Gazette Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of the world. David Reich, Nick Patterson & losif Lazeridis https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-s…...

Nick Patterson (from left), Iosif Lazaridis, and David Reich

Netflix: Inside the Mind of a Dog

August 23, 2024

The Canine Brains Lab was featured in a Netflix documentary! Watch as associate professor Erin Hecht contributes her research to our understanding of how our dogs' brains may function. Inside the Mind of a Dog

Joe Henrich Interviewed for NYT Article, "Why Are We In The West So Weird? A Theory"

September 12, 2020

Article by Daniel C. Dennett Read More Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/books/review/the-weirdest-people-in-…

HEB Announces Job Search for Tenured or Tenure-Track Professor in Human Evolutionary Biology

October 02, 2018

Job Information and application instructions listed here. Review of applications to begin on November 15, 2018.

New Research Publication in 'Human Nature Behavior'

August 22, 2017

In a recent Nature Human Behavior paper, Professor Joe Henrich, along with colleagues Michael Muthukrishna (Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics), Patrick Francois, and Shayan Pourahmadi, incorporated the possibility of bribery into an...

Three new faculty joining HEB in academic year 2015-16

October 08, 2014

The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology is pleased to welcome three new faculty members, who will be joining the department during the academic year 2015-16. Dr. Rachel Carmody is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Human...

Professor Richard Wrangham publishes study arguing that chimpanzees are naturally violent

September 08, 2014

The results of a significant study, which was conducted in part by Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard Wrangham, was recently published in a September 18, 2014 issue of Nature. The study collected data from a number of chimpanzee...

Heather Shattuck-Heidorn awarded the Harvard Global Health Institute Fellowship

July 28, 2014

HEB graduate student Heather Shattuck-Heidorn was one of nine recipients of the Harvard Global Health Institute Planning and Research Fellowship, awarded in July 2014. The Fellowship provides $25,000 in funding for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral...

Eric Castillo publishes an article on how and why humans use poles to carry loads

July 10, 2014

HEB graduate student Eric Castillo's article titled, "Effects of Pole Compliance and Step Frequency on the Biomechanics and Economy of Pole Carrying During Human Walking" was published in the July 2014 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology. The...

Andrew Cunningham awarded Leakey Foundation grant for dissertation fieldwork

May 30, 2014

During spring term 2014, HEB graduate student Andrew Cunningham was awarded a Leakey Foundation grant for $10,800 to investigate the foraging profitability of aquatic habitats and adjacent drier ones for female foragers in the Okavango region of Northwest...

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