Texas A&M offers
courses in the study of human evolution, bioarchaeology,
osteology, and primatology.
Biological Anthropology Laboratory
facilities include an excellent and expanding collection of
human skeletal remains, australopithecine casts, hominine casts,
and primate skeletal remains. Teaching facilities include a
computerized laboratory.
Students interested
in the field of biological anthropology have the opportunity
to study and work with these teaching and research materials.
Research in biological
anthropology at Texas A&M is concentrated in the areas of
prehistoric human skeletal biology and osteology,
paleoanthropology (the study of human evolution),
primate behavior
Students interested in this field of anthropology learn the
discipline through course work and direct participation in
ongoing research projects.
Some of the current research projects in physical anthropology
at Texas A&M University concern the analyses of Middle
Pleistocene hominine variation, Paranthropus and
paleoecology in South Africa, the bioarchaeology of the Ancient
Maya, and the behavior of prosimians in Indonesia.
