Come learn primate skeletal anatomy using 3D visualization software on iPads.
Assistant Professor Chowdhury studies social behavior and stress physiology of chacma baboons in South Africa.
Associate Professor Stephen Chester with students enrolled in his paleontological field school in Montana.
Assistant Professor Chowdhury studies the behavioral biology of hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia as part of the Filoha Hamadryas Project.
Associate Professor Stephen Chester holds the tiny ankle bones of the oldest known primate, Purgatorius.

Biological Anthropology

The scientific discipline known as biological anthropology (also known as physical anthropology or evolutionary anthropology), is focused on all aspects of human evolution, from the first appearance of our remote primate relatives 66 million years ago, to the rise of our own genus Homo more than two million years ago, to the study and conservation of our living nonhuman primate cousins—the lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. Branches of biological anthropology include genetics, primate behavioral ecology, paleoanthropology, and human biology. Scientists in all of these areas aim to better understand the evolutionary history, ecology, and behavior of humans and other primates in order to develop the context from which we can study how our species is similar and different to other animals.

Biological Anthropology

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