People

Alex Harris

aharris1@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate (G4)

My research focuses on how energy balance and physical activity impact the female menstrual cycle and levels of reproductive hormones. To study this interaction, I work closely with female athletes in Boston and subsistence farmers in Rwanda. Prior to...

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...

Joseph Henrich

henrich@fas.harvard.edu

Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Director of Graduate Studies

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...

Neil Ibata

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Dimitar Ivanov

divanov@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G1)

I am interested in the genetic underpinnings that make humans unique and especially the coding and regulatory causes for our expanded brains.

Ashley Johnson

Undergraduate Program Administrator

Academic Administration

∗ Advisor to HBBE Undergraduate Student Club, ∗ Appointments for non-ladder faculty, ∗ Edits to Course Catalogue and Schedule of Classes, ∗ TF/TA allocations, ∗ Classroom reservations

John Kahumbu

jkahumbu@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G2)

Megumi Kirby

mkirby@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant II

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Christopher Kuzawa

ckuzawa@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

I am a biological anthropologist interested in developmental biology, human evolution, and health. My group’s research explores developmental influences on adult biology and health, the psychobiology of human fatherhood, non-genetic forms of biological...

Iosif Lazaridis

lazaridis@fas.harvard.edu

Research Associate

Sydney Lee

sydneylee@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G1)

Joonhee Lee

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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