People

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.

Maisie Ettinger

mettinger@fas.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G2)

Maisie received her BSc in Zoology from the University of Exeter and went on to complete a Master's in Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London. During her Master's, she used genetic methods to investigate and quantify the diet of orangutans in...

Mahham Fayyaz

mahham_fayyaz@fas.harvard.edu

Research Group Coordinator

Provides administrative support across daily lab operations, purchasing, financial transactions, travel and expense processing, website maintenance, and general lab assistance. Supporting: Department Chair Capellini Lab Carmody Lab Lieberman Lab Reich Lab...

Lawrence Flynn

ljflynn@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Director of the American School of Prehistoric Research,

Lab Safety Coordinator

My research interests focus on the paleobiology of past ecosystems, especially the Neogene of South Asia and China. I specialize in small mammals which, collectively, account for half of modern community diversity. For the fossil record, small mammals are...

Lily Fornof

lfornof@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate (G5)

I study how motherhood shapes the social behavior of females using wild bonobos as a model organism. I specifically look at patterns of female sociality and social relationship formation.

Romain Fournier

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Shanen Ganapathee

sganapathee@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate (G4)

Miguel Gareta Garcia

miguelgaretagarcia@fas.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Dr Miguel Gareta Garcia did his masters in Conservation and Evolution at the University of Valencia in Spain and completed his PhD at the University of Neuchâtel under the supervision of Prof. Redouan Bshary. He studied female vervet monkeys' social...

William Goodman

wgoodman@fas.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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...