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Alyssa Crittenden earned a PhD in Anthropology in June of 2009 from the University of California, San Diego under the guidance of Dr. Margaret Schoeninger.  Before coming to San Diego, Alyssa received her B.A. in Anthropology in 2001 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied under Dr. Adrienne Zihlman. Her research focuses on the behavioral and nutritional ecology of human foraging societies, particularly allomaternal care, children's foraging patterns, and the evolution of the human diet. Alyssa's dissertation project explored the evolution of cooperative breeding by analyzing various types of allomaternal care among the Hadza foragers of Tanzania. Alyssa is currently a post-graduate researcher and program representative for CARTA.

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