Brian Wood

Brian Wood is an evolutionary anthropologist whose research focuses on the behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. He is interested in learning how basic challenges of survival and reproduction that arise from life as a hunter-gatherer have shaped human biology, behavior, and culture. Wood has been carrying out research with the Hadza community of northern Tanzania since 2004. His research is interdisciplinary and involves a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Foraging and food sharing, mobility, and social organization are core themes of his research. Wood also study the demography and life history of our closest primate relatives, wild chimpanzees. At UCLA, he teaches classes on the topics of human evolution, human behavioral ecology, hunter-gatherers, quantitative analysis, and software development for data collection and analysis.