Open to HEB Juniors and interested Freshman and Sophomores. Come and learn about the honors track in HEB, research opportunities, and hear from a few Seniors who are working on their theses about what...
Professor Christian Rutz, Harvard Radcliffe Fellow 2019-2020 & Professor of Biology, University of St. Andrews
Abstract:
Within a mere ~100,000 years, human technology has advanced from basic, hand-crafted hunting and subsistence tools, to truly mind-boggling feats of engineering, like super computers and space shuttles. This astonishing progress, towards ever-more complex and efficient designs, is driven by the gradual accumulation of innovations. Although often considered a uniquely human phenomenon, at least...
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Speaker: Dr. Fenna Krienen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Abstract:
The expansion of the neocortex in primates has led to the emergence of brain regions that have specialized functions and connectivity, are important for cognition, and are compromised in brain disorders. What are the genetic and cellular bases for the reorganization and increased capability of the neocortex in primates? I will share the results of work to understand the neocortex across multiple scales - from...
Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Speaker: Professor Andrea Migliano, Universitat Zurich
Abstract:
Contemporary hunter-gatherers provide a window into the ecological conditions for the emergence of humans’ unmatched cultural abilities. Andrea Migliano will discuss how the hunter-gatherers’ foraging...
HEB North Lounge, MCZ 5th Floor, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology cordially invites you to a celebration in honor of our degree recipients on Wedensday, May 29, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm. The celebration will be in the HEB North Lounge. Hors d'oeuvres and champagne will be served. Friends and family are welcome.
Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Guest speaker Professor Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara, will deliver our first HEB Colloquium talk in March. A title and abstract for this talk are forthcoming.
Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Hugo Reyes-Centeno
Scientific Coordinator, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools”, University of Tubingen
Despite consensus on the emergence of modern humans in Africa and their subsequent dispersal into the rest of the world, the mode and timing of these processes remain controversial topics. In addressing them, data on human anatomical and genomic variation have sometimes generated conflicting inferences. Therefore, approaches that consider both lines of evidence in a common...