人类进化生物学理学学士

人类进化生物学专业由人类学系和生态与进化系共同开设。它提供了自然科学和人类学的跨学科培训，以研究进化力如何塑造人类状况。核心课程为自然科学，数学和统计学提供了深厚的背景，并介绍了三个子领域的每个领域，包括人类进化和形态学，人类和非人类灵长类遗传学和基因组学以及行为的进化基础。人类进化和形态学的子领域旨在了解人类谱系及其前体的进化，探索人类祖先的古生物学，形态学和文化过渡。人类和非人类灵长类动物遗传学和基因组学研究的重点是发展对人类变异进化的理解，探索人类遗传多样性及其潜在原因，以及人类与灵长类动物亲属的系
The major in Human Evolutionary Biology is offered jointly by the Departments of Anthropology and of Ecology and Evolution. It provides interdisciplinary training in the natural sciences and anthropology to examine how evolutionary forces shaped the human condition. Core courses provide a strong background in the natural sciences, mathematics, and statistics and an introduction to each of three subfields, which include human evolution and morphology, human and non-human primate genetics and genomics, and the evolutionary basis of behavior. The subfield of human evolution and morphology aims at an understanding of the evolution of the human lineage and its precursors exploring the paleontological, morphological, and cultural transitions in our human ancestors. The emphasis of the human and non-human primate genetics and genomics track is to develop an understanding of the evolution of human variation exploring human genetic diversity and its underlying causes, as well as the phylogenetic relationships of human populations and primate relatives. This includes the basic genetics of humans, human population structure, prehistoric migration and genetic adaptation, and the comparative molecular evolution of the human genome and other primate genomes. The subfield of the evolutionary basis of behavior aims at an understanding of extant human and nonhuman primate behavior and psychology based on the principles of evolutionary theory. The field explores the variation in social systems and life histories and its underlying physiological mechanisms, ecological contexts, and evolutionary bases.