People

Terence D. Capellini

tcapellini@fas.harvard.edu

Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Professor of 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...

Bridget Alex

balex@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology

I'm a paleoanthropologist, science writer, and educator. In addition to teaching in HEB, I'm an editor for SAPIENS magazine. Over the years, I've taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, and...

Cary Allen-Blevins

callenblevins@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer

Joyce Benenson

benenson@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology

I study the development of human social structure with an emphasis on sex differences in competition and cooperation. My studies are based on findings with non-human primates, particularly chimpanzees. I teach courses on Primate Development and Mammalian...

Rachel Carmody

carmody@fas.harvard.edu

Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

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...

Joanne (Jo) Clark-Matott

jclarkmatott@g.harvard.edu

Preceptor

Cammie Curtin

cameron_curtin@g.harvard.edu

Lecturer

I am an interdisciplinary social scientist studying cultural evolution, with a special interest in how culture shapes social structure, social psychology, and behavior. My recent research examines how social norms and social institutions sustain...

Abigail Desmond

Lecturer

I am a Palaeolithic Archaeologist (DPhil Oxford), and my research focuses on the coevolution of technology, biology, and cognition. Specifically, I study how technology has shaped humans’ bodies and minds over evolutionary timescales – how the things we...

Peter T. Ellison

pellison@fas.harvard.edu

Professor Emeritus

My research interests include reproductive ecology, endrocrinology, and human evolutionary biology.

Daniel Green

drgreen@fas.harvard.edu

Field Program Director

Daniel studies the role of climate change in shaping evolutionary processes, with a particular emphasis on Africa and human origins. His research includes work on dental anatomy, stable isotope geochemistry, and proteomics. Daniel collaborates with the...

Éadaoin Harney

harney@g.harvard.edu

Lecturer

Éadaoin is a population geneticist at 23andMe, where her research focuses on searching for genetic connections between historical and living people using ancient DNA. She completed her PhD in 2020 as part of Harvard’s Department of Organismic and...

Erin Hecht

erin_hecht@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

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...