The study of humans and related Primates as biological organisms, including variation, development and evolutionary history. Fossils, living anatomy and genetic evidence answer complementary questions; resemblance in one trait does not alone identify an ancestor.
A researcher studying human and primate biology in an evolutionary or comparative context. A biological anthropologist may combine skeletal measurements, fossils and genetic evidence to test accounts of variation and ancestry.
Researcher in primate evolution. Langergraber and collaborators measured generation times in wild chimpanzees and Gorillas, connecting life-history observations with estimates of when great-ape lineages diverged.[ref]
Researcher in human evolution. White and collaborators investigated Ardipithecus ramidus, connecting fossil anatomy and environmental evidence with the interpretation of early hominin biology.[ref]
Researcher in comparative primate anatomy. Kivell and collaborators investigated independent evolution of knuckle-walking, showing why similar locomotor features need not imply an identical ancestral history.[ref]
Researcher in human evolution. Richmond and collaborators examined anatomical evidence for a knuckle-walking ancestor, connecting comparative skeletal features with an explicitly testable hypothesis about human locomotor origins.[ref]
Researcher in human evolution. Harvati and collaborators investigated the Apidima Cave fossils, connecting anatomical analysis and dating with evidence for early human presence in Eurasia.[ref]
Researcher in human evolution. Hershkovitz and collaborators investigated fossil evidence for early modern humans outside Africa, connecting anatomical identification with the chronology of dispersal.[ref]

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