The Reich Lab focuses on the following key topics:
Building an Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity: Ancient DNA allows us to go beyond the two-dimensional understanding of human genetic variation based on the coordinates of latitude and longitude, and to develop...
My research focusses mainly on questions related to aspects of competition and cooperation within and between groups. I make use of our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees as referential models, to infer about potential selective pressures...
The basic question I study and teach —why does the human body look and function the way it does— requires an evolutionary perspective because nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. An evolutionary approach to human anatomy and...
My lab’s research asks how brains change in response to selection pressure on behavior, and how brains acquire heritable adaptations for complex, learned behaviors. Comparisons between modern humans and our living primate relatives provide a way to...
Dr. B. Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist who researches adaptations across the animal kingdom to find solutions to human health challenges. A faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Harvard's Department of Human...
I seek to understand how the human body acquires and utilizes energy, and how past changes in energy budget have shaped human evolution. Within the past decade, it has become clear that energy metabolism depends on complex interactions between diet...
Joseph Henrich's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution, culture-gene coevolution, human sociality, prestige, leadership, large-scale...
My research interests include reproductive ecology, endrocrinology, and human evolutionary biology.
My lab's research is on identifying the DNA changes underlying human and non-human primate biological adaptations. In the process of identifying these changes, we seek to reveal basic developmental and genetic mechanisms governing biological trait...
