People

Daniel E. Lieberman

danlieb@fas.harvard.edu

Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences

Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Affiliate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

The basic question I study and teach —why does the human body look and function the way it does— requires an evolutionary perspective because nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. An evolutionary approach to human anatomy and...

Bridget Alex

balex@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer

I'm a paleoanthropologist, science writer, and educator. Over the years, I've taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, and science communication. My pop-science stories have appeared in outlets...

Emmanuel Aoron

Graduate Student

I am a first year graduate student from Turkana, Kenya. I have a Bachelors Degree in Biology and Chemistry from Edgerton University, Kenya and a Masters Degree in Human Evolutionary Biology from Turkana University College, Kenya.

Daniel Aslan

Postdoctoral Fellow

My research centers on the importance of human movement for health and performance across the lifespan, with a particular focus on how movement and cognition are intertwined and shaped by our evolutionary past. My goal is to understand how and why...

Kaiya Brooks

Undergraduate researcher

I'm an undergraduate at Harvard studying Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution. I'm a member of the Harvard Women’s Track and Cross Country teams, and am interested in RED-S, adolescent athlete health, bone health, and reproductive physiology.

William Eamon Callison

wcallison@g.harvard.edu

Associate

I am interested in using an interdisciplinary approach to studying how phenotypes change in response to environmental constraints and how these changes give rise to complex social and biological identities in hominins. I explore human evolution by...

Jo Clark-Mattot

Preceptor

Abigail Desmond

abigaildesmond@fas.harvard.edu

College Fellow

I am a Palaeolithic archaeologist (D.Phil. Oxford) specializing in early human technologies. My research focuses on the roles of bone tools and less visible technologies (e.g., basketry, textiles, leather goods, etc.) in deep history. While the “Stone Age...

Charlotte Gilmour

Undergraduate researcher

I am an undergraduate at the college writing a senior honors thesis. I am mainly interested in exercise physiology and I am writing my thesis on how various physical factors affect fatigue in female rugby players and the evolutionary trade-offs that...

Theo Goode

Undergraduate Researcher

William Goodman

wgoodman@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliate

Physical activity plays an important role in both physical and mental health outcomes. Utilizing a mobile health (mHealth) application framework, my work focuses on improving physical activity interventions and associated downstream health trajectories. I...

Alexandra Harris