Bioanthropology
Working Group at the Department of Anthropology; Fred BOOKSTEIN, group leader
Bioanthropology, or human biology, comprises studies of the evolutionary, developmental, and comparative biology of living humans. The members of this working group include Fred Bookstein, Harald Wilfing, Martin Fieder, Karl Grammer, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Bernard Wallner. Among the concerns and research thrusts of this group are
- human life history, human demography
- evolution of human reproduction
- scientific inference in human biology
- geometric morphometrics, computational comparative anatomy of
humans
- human variation
- social aspects of human biological development
- network analyses in human ecology