Biological Anthropology at UT

At the University of Tennessee, students and faculty in Biological Anthropology engage in diverse research projects that share the common goal of advancing biocultural understanding of humans and are unified by their rooting in evolutionary theory.

We conduct research on human and primate evolution, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, and human genomics, at field sites around the globe and in state-of-the-art laboratories on campus.

UTK’s Biological Anthropology lab spaces are devoted to Skeletal Biology, Evolutionary Engineering (at the Hominoid Evolutionary Engineering Lab, or HEEL), to Molecular Anthropology (at the Molecular Anthropology Laboratories), and to Forensic Anthropology (at the FAC).