Biological Anthropology
This department offers training in primate and human anatomy and evolution, primate behavior and ecology, human variation and ecology, and nutritional anthropology. Faculty research interests include:
- primate health and disease ecology
- general ecology
- conservation biology
- primate evolution
- early hominid paleoecology
- human reproductive and nutritional ecology
- skeletal biology of Medieval Nubians
- biogeochemical techniques for studying the diets and habitats of modern and fossil fauna
Profiled Faculty Accepting Students
Bert Covert
Professor Covert focus on the behavioral ecology and conservation of endangered Vietnamese primates of Southeast Asia.
Michelle Sauther
Professor Sauther’s major focus of research is to better understand how both immediate and long term environmental factors interact with inter-individual variation to affect primate behavior and biology.
