The graduate program in biological (physical) anthropology at CUNY is based in evolutionary approaches to understanding human and nonhuman primate biology. Student and faculty research is distributed across a broad range of topics in biological anthropology including:
- Paleoanthropology and primate evolution.
- Primate socioecology and conservation biology.
- Genetic and morphological variation and adaptation.
- Nutrition, energetics, and paleopathology.
- Evolutionary morphology, 3D morphometrics, and scientific visualization.
- Skeletal biology, biomechanics, and forensic osteology.
- Human and primate population structure and demographic history.
The CUNY program in Biological Anthropology has played a leading role in creating the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), an inter-institutional training program that gives CUNY biological anthropology students access to faculty, laboratories, and collections at CUNY, New York University, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. All CUNY biological anthropology students are part of the NYCEP training program in which they take special courses jointly taught by CUNY, NYU, AMNH, and Columbia faculty, participate in an annual seminar series, and undertake research with NYCEP faculty in their laboratories and field sites.
