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Richard Bribiescas, PhD

Clayton Stephenson / Yale Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Clayton Stephenson / Yale Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Biography

Richard Bribiescas is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department. He is also Director of the Yale Reproductive Ecology Laboratory and the Program in Reproductive Ecology, a YIBSsponsored research initiative. His most notable research involves the evolutionary biology and endocrinology of human and comparative life histories, reproduction, aging, and metabolism. He has conducted field research among the Ache of Paraguay as well as populations in Venezuela, Japan, Ecuador, and the United States as well as various species of non-human primates. He is presently collaborating with Professors Larry Sugiyamaand Josh Snodgrass of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, as well as Professor Felicia Madimenos of the Department of Anthropology at Queen’s College CUNY on the Shuar Health and Life History Project in Ecuador.

Bribiescas received his B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology (double major) from the University of California, Los Angeles, afterwards earning an A.M. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. Prior to his position at Yale, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Reproductive Endocrine Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is author of Men: Evolutionary and Life History (Harvard University Press, 2006), a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary biology of human males which was awarded the 2007 Bronze Medal in the category of science by the Independent Book Publishers Association. In 2007 he was also awarded the Medal of 600 Years Anniversary of the Restoration of the Krakow Academy by Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, for his research in human reproductive ecology.

Professor Bribiescas serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Human Biology, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, and the Annual Review of Anthropology. Current courses taught by Professor Bribiescas include Human Evolutionary Biology and Life History, as well as graduate seminars in behavioral endocrinology, reproductive ecology, aging, and life history theory. A list of publications and laboratory information can be found here.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Post Doctoral Researcher
Massachusetts General Hospital (1998)
PhD
Harvard University, Anthropology (1997)
MA
Harvard University, Anthropology (1994)
BA
University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology and Psychology (double major) (1988)

Research

Overview

Richard Bribiescas is professor and chair of the department of anthropology at Yale University and is the director for the Center for Human and Primate Reproductive Ecology at Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Research Center. Dr. Bribiescas is also the director for the Reproductive Ecology Laboratory for the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. His major research interests include: biological anthropology, human evolutionary biology, life history theory, reproductive ecology and human and non-human primate reproductive and metabolic biology.

Richard Bribiescas received his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. His work on Leptin associations with age, weight, and sex among chimpanzees was featured in the Journal of Medical Primatology. In addition to published articles, Dr. Bribiescas has written a book titled “Men: Evolutionary Life and History.”

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Richard Bribiescas's published research.

Publications

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2021

2020

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Shuar Health and Life History Project

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    Chimpanzee Behavior in Kibale National Park, Uganda

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    Ovarian Function Study

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Yale University

Department of Anthropology, 10 Sachem Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8277

United States

Locations

  • 10 Sachem Street

    Academic Office

    Ste 232

    New Haven, CT 06511