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What is HEB?

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Welcome to the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology (HEB) at Harvard University. Research and teaching in the HEB is driven by the question: “How did evolution make humans the way they are?” HEB students and faculty are also interested in the related...

Solving mystery at tip of South America

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A new study published in Nature reveals a previously unknown human lineage that persisted in the central Southern Cone of South America for more than 8,000 years. Lead author Javier Maravall López, a Ph.D. student in Human Evolutionary Biology, and senior...

Javier Maravall López

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Javier graduated from the University of Barcelona with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and philosophy and he holds master's degrees in mathematics, history, and mathematical and computational engineering. Prior to joining the Reich lab in the HEB...

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...

HEB Research Labs Undergraduate Open House (In-Person)

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Description: What is HEB? We are a human biology program that explores all aspects of human biology, from genetics to nutrition to physical activity to behavior to culture and everything in between! But humans are more than the sum of our parts, so we...

HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Arbel Harpak

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Arbel Harpak is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Population Health at the University of Texas at Austin. His lab studies questions in evolutionary, statistical and population genetics. He holds a B.S. in both mathematics and physics and...

Christopher Kuzawa

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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...

Clarissa Coveney

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I am a musculoskeletal development and disease biologist whose research integrates mechanobiology, evolution, functional genomics, and epigenetics to understand the genetic and environmental drivers of musculoskeletal traits and diseases. My Postdoctoral...