Biological Anthropology: University of Cambridge

Key research areas and major research groups that act as a the focus for postgraduates:

• Human Evolution - Phenotype and Genotype, Evolution of Culture in Humans and Primates, Human Diversity, Behaviour and Adaptation (N Boivin, RA Foley, T Kivisild, WC McGrew, A Migliano, MM Mirazon-Lahr, M Mormina, M Okumura-Martinez, MD Petraglia, JD Stock, LC Vinicius)
• Human Population Biology and Health - nutrition, epidemiology, development (CGN Mascie-Taylor, PG Lunn)
• Primate Molecular Ecology (LA Knapp)

Students are encouraged to develop their own research interests in the context of the larger research programmes, and they are often directly involved in the development and implementation of field and lab-based projects.

Research collaborations:

• The Department is centrally located, and has strong research links with a number of other faculties. In particular, we collaborate with the Departments of Archaeology, Zoology, Geography, Genetics, Anatomy, and Cell Biology within Cambridge.
• Extensive UK collaborations include universities such as UCL, Imperial College, Southampton, Durham, Liverpool.
• We also work internationally with institutions in Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Unites States, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Brazil, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Libya, amongst others. Other research involves collaboration with aid and development groups in a number of developing countries.

Further information:

• www.bioanth.cam.ac.uk
• www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk
• If you would like an information booklet on graduate research, please contact Sinead Parker, the Education Secretary on sp515@cam.ac.uk .