We have a motivated group of graduate students, postdocs, and undergrads studying diverse topics within evolutionary anthropology. Current emphases include acculturation and diabetes/cardiovascular disease, role of pathogens and immune function in chronic disease risk, social capital and women's autonomy, reproductive decision-making and fertility transitions, kin investment and the function of post-reproductive lifespan, adaptive logic of infant feeding practices, personality evolution, cooperation and altruism, human-chimpanzee life history comparisons, outgroup psychology and evolution of tolerance, and hormone-behavior interactions.
Group Members
Principal Investigator
behavioral ecology, evolutionary medicine, indigenous health
Postdoctoral Scholars
population ecology, life history, evolutionary demography
human behavioral ecology, hunter-gatherers, sociality
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Alumni/Honors Research Students
Interested in studying at UCSB?
Email me directly: gurven@anth.ucsb.edu
Ideal candidates:
- have a scientifically curious mind
- have diverse interests within biocultural anthropology and human biology,
- have an active desire to conduct field-based studies in ethical way,
- have quantitative skills and developed logical reasoning,
- are intrinsically motivated