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Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability

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Underlying variation in height are regulatory changes to chondrocytes, cartilage cells comprising long-bone growth plates. Currently, we lack knowledge on epigenetic regulation and gene expression of chondrocytes sampled across the human skeleton, and...

Alex Pollen Colloquium Lecture: "Development and Evolution of the Human Cerebral Cortex "

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Dr. Alex Pollen (Postdoctoral Scholar, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California at San Francisco) will be kicking off HEB's 2015-16 Colloquium Lecture Series by lecturing on "Development and...

HEB Undergraduate Concentration 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...

Nature, NYT, and Harvard Gazette Feature: The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps

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We are thrilled to share that HEB professor Terry Capellini and affiliates* have a new paper out today in Nature . The Nature piece was also featured in The New York Times , which includes a great story about Gayani Senevirathne’s adventures transporting...

"Adversity and Advantage: The influence of social environments on fitness in social mammals", Susan Alberts Colloquium Lecture

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Susan Alberts is a Bass Fellow and Professor at Duke University. She codirects the Amboseli Baboon Research Project with Jeanne Altmann of Princeton University. Her research focuses on two populations of large mammals. For both populations, detailed life...

Rachel Carmody

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I seek to understand how the human body acquires and utilizes energy, and how past changes in energy budget have shaped human evolution. Within the past decade, it has become clear that energy metabolism depends on complex interactions between diet...

HEB Undergraduate Concentration Open House (Virtual)

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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...

Missing Links: Development, Variation, and Human Facial Evolution

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Speaker: Dr. Nathan Young Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco & Program Director, MA in Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco Abstract: How development structures...

HEB Fall 2026 Colloquium Series: Dr. Anna Kukekova

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We invite you to the second HEB Colloquium with Dr. Anna Kukekova, Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Talk Title: The Fox Domestication Experiment: A Lens into Animal Domestication and the...

An ancient dog breed regulates pitch when howling with music

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Singing occurs in every human society, most commonly as group singing where individuals coordinate their vocal pitches1. Coordinating pitch with other simultaneous voices is not necessary for ordinary speech, which involves turn taking, yet this ability...

Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

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Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This comprehensive volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain what...

Leveraging single cell multiomic analyses to identify gene regulatory networks that drive human articular cartilage cell fate

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Objective Compromises to the integrity of articular cartilage, whether genetic, post-traumatic or age-related, lead to debilitating chronic degenerative diseases including osteoarthritis. In this study, our objective was to leverage multiomic and spatial...