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Sydney Lee
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Impacts of dietary fat type on energy gain in the human holobiont
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Impacts of dietary fat type on energy gain in the human holobiont A dissertation defense by Katia Chadaideh, PhD Candidate in HEB Abstract: While different dietary fat types exhibit strong associations with metabolic health, the underlying mechanisms that...
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Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Questions about the origins of human cooperation have long puzzled and divided scientists. Social norms that foster fair-minded behavior, altruism and collective action undergird the foundations of large-scale human societies, but we know little about how...
Aidan Murphy
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I'm interested in how brains evolve. Our lab uses canines to study breed-specific behaviors. We also use existing non-human primate data to investigate neuroanatomical differences that might contribute to cognitive/behavioral differences between species.
HEB Colloquium: Title TBA
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Speaker: Dr. Nathan Thompson, Associate Professor of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology
Laura Schell
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Laura is a postdoctoral fellow in Rachel Carmody’s Nutritional and Microbial Ecology Lab. She studies how the gut microbiome affects host energy balance, how these host-microbial interactions shape energy allocation strategy across developmental and...
About the HEB PhD
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A Message From the Director of Graduate Studies Welcome! Unique in the world, Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology is built around a fundamental question: “What makes us human?” To address this question, we created a novel field that...
Long in the tooth
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Research finds 18-million-year-old enamel proteins in mammal fossils, offering window into how prehistoric animals lived, evolved Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent
Nutritional Ecology Lab
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Our lab supports nutritional analyses of foods eaten by humans (Hadza, Ju-Hoansi), great apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas), and monkeys (pitheciids, snub-nosed monkeys, capuchins). Current graduate student research includes physiological and...