Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University

Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology is one of the world’s leading programs to study the fundamental question “How did evolution make humans the way they are?” Our program evolved from the subfield of biological anthropology (sometimes called evolutionary anthropology), but we are more than that because we address issues in human evolutionary biology by bringing together and integrating scholars and students engaged in many fields of research relevant to our core question including:​ anatomy and physiology of primates and humans; primate and human behavior and ecology; molecular, developmental, and population genetics and genomics; and paleontology and the phys