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The field of Biological Anthropology has evolved significantly, transitioning from a primarily descriptive and typological study of human morphology to incorporating experimental and comparative analyses within population-based frameworks.
Today's biological anthropologists regularly transcend conventional academic boundaries, collaborating with disciplines across both the physical and natural sciences—such as biology, anatomy, genetics, chemistry, biometry, and endocrinology—as well as the social sciences.
At CSU, our Biological Anthropology faculty specialize in diverse areas including:
Human skeletal biology
Forensic anthropology
Evolutionary theory
Neanderthal paleobiology and paleobiogeography
Dental anthropology
Early hominin feeding ecology
Taphonomy
Plio-Pleistocene Africa
Pleistocene Asia
Primate origins, biology, and locomotion