Welcome to Evolutionary Anthropology and Biodemography
Dr. Michael Gurven’s research group studies how ecological and social factors shape behavior, physiology, health and psychology. Incorporating perspectives and methods from behavioral ecology, life history theory, evolutionary medicine, biodemography and human biology provides a unique research environment for explaining human diversity.
Current foci include: determinants of whole-body physiological aging, social aspects of aging in subsistence-oriented societies, and the effects of "modernization" on cardiovascular and cognitive health, and subjective well-being.
His working group occupies both wet lab and behavioral lab space, and field sites around the globe.
He is a Distinguished Professor in Integrative Anthropological Sciences @ UCSB, co-Director of the Tsimane Health and Life History Project,, Associate Director of the Broom Demography Center., and a member of the Center for Aging and Longevity.
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