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Students in the Evolutionary Biology Curriculum have the opportunity to investigate the morphology, genetics, development, function, and evolution of primates, humans and other organisms. The general processes, patterns, and principles governing organismal evolution are revealed through investigation of primates and other mammals.
Program of Study
Students are generally required to take Human Gross Anatomy, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Morphology, and are encouraged to take Molecular Biology, Genetics, and a statistics course. The curriculum, however, can be tailored to meet the needs of each student. Graduate education is also enhanced by courses available at neighboring institutions through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, curatorial assistantships at the Field Museum, and several seminar series, including regular meetings of the Chicago Primatological Society, based at Northwestern's Chicago campus. Faculty and students on the Chicago campus maintain active research and teaching contacts with their colleagues in biological anthropology on the Evanston campus.
Available research resources include systems for automated video motion and shape analysis, a reflex microscope, and scanning and other electron microscopes, plus facilities for in vivo studies of electromyography and bone strain analysis, PCR and DNA sequencing equipment, digitization, bone biology and histology, and dissection. Opportunities exist for field study of living or extinct primates. The Chicago area is rich in resources in evolutionary biology and primatology including the Field Museum of Natural History and Brookfield and Lincoln Park Zoos.
The curriculum for EB students can be tailored to meet the needs of each student. Students are generally required to take Human and Primate Gross Anatomy, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Morphology, and are encouraged to take Molecular Biology, Genetics, and a statistics course. Courses at neighboring institutions are available through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
Evolutionary Biology
Faculty and Research Interests
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