The program in biological anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers graduate training that integrates diverse research areas toward the common goal of improving our understanding of human and nonhuman primate anatomy, adaptation, and evolution. The biological anthropology program includes ongoing research in primate social behavior, ecology, cognition, endocrinology, reproduction and sexual strategies, disease and conservation, quantitative genetics, skeletal biology, demography, primate growth and development, life history, biomechanics, functional anatomy, and primate and human evolution.

The biological anthropologists in the faculty of the Department of Anthropology are actively involved in research in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Uganda, and Primate Research Centers in San Antonio, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as in a wide variety of laboratories on campus including the Environmental Isotope Paleobiogeochemistry lab, and the Visual Media and Imaging Lab, Integrated Systems Lab, and Biomedical Imaging Center located at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

Many of our faculty are affiliated with the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (PEEB) and most have research collaborations with other units on campus including Mechanical Engineering, Kinesiology, and the Host-Microbe Systems Group in the Institute for Genomic Biology. We offer a wide range of graduate courses in our areas of specialty, and are also involved in teaching human gross anatomy in the College of Medicine. Our goal is to create an exciting and demanding academic environment that challenges doctoral students and prepares them to conduct outstanding research.

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