The full-time Biological Anthropology Educator would teach several classes. Examples include introductory courses on evolutionary biology and comparative anatomy to specialized courses such as “Paleo Diets” and “Koobi Fora.” In “Paleo Diets,” students discover how scientists use teeth, skeletal anatomy, genetics, archaeological remains, and even fossilized poop, to reconstruct ancient human diets. Students explore how diets have changed through time and what those changes can tell us about the environments that early humans lived in. in “Koobi Fora,” students will explore the current research being conducted by Museum scientists and their Kenyan colleagues on the early human paleontological site of Koobi Fora in Northern Kenya. This site is a source of unparalleled geological, fossil, and archaeological evidence for all major stages of human evolution over the last five million years and has informed much of what we currently know about the evolution of our own lineage.
