Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology Group
This group provides focus for the diverse activities taking place in Oxford in this disciplinary area. The location of this group at the Institute of Human Sciences , School of Anthropology , acknowledges that study of human-environmental relationships is an interdisciplinary venture that requires comparative, archaeological and anthropological perspectives, and naturally falls within the multidisciplinary remit of this Institute. The primary activity of this group is to provide a focus to the study of human ecology and evolution at Oxford through a seminar forum. The group comprises of research associates with primary affiliations across the University of Oxford . Members of the group are directly involved in multi-disciplinary research, using some combination of anthropological, ecological, historical and evolutionary frameworks in the understanding of human-environmental relationships. Using inter-disciplinary perspectives, the remit of the group is to pursue the study and understanding of ecology and culture; human evolutionary ecology; nutritional anthropology; disease ecology; and human reproductive ecology.