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156 results for "Evolution "

156 results for "Evolution "

Michelle Tang

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Michelle studies how evolutionary mismatches between small-scale and urban-industrial cultural environments shape the lives and well-being of adolescents and young adults. Before joining HEB, she received her B.A. in English and Computer Science from...

Sasha Post

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I am interested how stressful experiences span generations. Specifically, I want to know how different types and timescales of stress interact with parental physiology to influence the health, development, and life history of both parents and their kids...

2025 HEB Graduate Program Open House

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********** 11/13/25 UPDATE: There will not be a virtual open house in 2025! However, Profs. Erin Hecht, Kevin Uno, and Janet Song (see Lab recordings below) will be accepting students in the AY26-27 admissions cycle! ********** You're invited! Please join...

Degree Requirements

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In the first two years of the program, graduate students in Human Evolutionary Biology are required to take a proseminar in evolutionary theory (HEB 3200: Graduate Seminar in Human Evolutionary Biology) and to fulfill course requirements in the four...

Why HEB?

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What current graduate students say about HEB: “Funding for all students was a major factor when I decided to apply to HEB. The elimination of competition for funds facilitates camaraderie between graduate students and allows us to focus on our research...

HEB Concentration Requirements

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Please review the concentration requirements listed below and familiarize yourself with the HEB curriculum. You may find it useful to fill out an 8 semester academic plan using the HEB Course Planner worksheet (use this version for the Mind/Brain/Behavior...

HEB Colloquium: Guest Speaker Professor Jessica Thompson

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Speaker: Dr. Jessica Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Title: Paleoanthropology and Paleoarchaeology in the southernmost Rift of eastern Africa Abstract: The East African Rift Valley System is famous for fossil and...

Martin Surbeck

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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...

Press Release: February 2015

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Complex Evolution of Human Dental Development Citation Smith, T.M.*, Tafforeau, P.*, Le Cabec, A., Bonnin, A., Houssaye, A., Pouech, J., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Manthi, F., Ward, C., Makaremi, M., Menter, C.G. (2015) Dental ontogeny in Pliocene and early...

Press Release: December 2010

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Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down While it may seem like kids grow up too fast, evolutionary anthropologists see things differently. Human childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape...