You will work on a project where you begin with a question or a hypothesis relevant to Human Biology and scrutinize the claims and perspectives forwarded in websites, books, media reports, and scientific articles. Although you may be looking at ideas found in popular media, you will be supporting your critique using peer-reviewed scientific research. You may also conduct new research on the topic. Example questions are: What is the cause of human skin color variation? Why is the rate of diabetes/cancer increasing? Why is there cultural variation in wet-nursing? Are rates of orthopedic injury related to lifestyle factors? What is the origin of HIV/AIDS? What is a natural human diet? Why do humans differ in resistance/susceptibility to diseases? Are humans monogamous? How well does evolutionary psychology explain human behavior? A strong project will explore multiple avenues of explanation to a question, specifically collaborating across the disciplinary spectrum of the major.
