• The MPhil in Applied Biological Anthropology is a full-time interdisciplinary course taken over a period of ten months with core teaching in human population biology. Topics that may be covered in a given year include human ecology (with behavioural, nutritional, demographic or reproductive emphasis) evolutionary and adaptive processes, molecular genetics, epidemiology and disease in past and present populations and quantitative methods for biological anthropology.
  • There are strong biostatistical and laboratory elements to the course as well as an opportunity for laboratory experience and exposure to literature on field studies in human population biology.