Embedded within the four-field scientific approach of the Cal State Fullerton Department of Anthropology,  Biocultural/Evolutionary Anthropology provides learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in analysis of the evolutionary ecology of nonhuman primates and humans, and especially behavioral and physiological adaptations in relation to the social environment. 

Faculty have research and teaching interests in:

Faculty have conducted research among forager agropastoralists in the Okavango Delta of Botswana,  baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, Quichua and Achuar people in the Ecuadorian Amazon,  and indigenous and minority peoples in New Mexico.

Biocultural/Evolutionary Anthropology Faculty:

John Bock (PhD 1995, University of New Mexico), Associate Professor

Sara Johnson (PhD 2001, University of New Mexico), Associate Professor

John Q. Patton (PhD 1997, UC Santa Barbara), Assistant Professor

Since 2000,  our graduates have been accepted into the following programs: PhD: Australian National,  British Columbia, Cambridge, Michigan,  NYU, Ohio State, Rutgers, Stirling, Texas A&M, UCLA, UC Davis, University College London, Washington, and  Washington State. MPH:  Berkeley, CSU Long Beach, Loma Linda, and UCLA .

For additional information please contact Dr. Jack Bedell, Chair, or visit the Anthropology Department website.

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